The grid includes more than 7,300 power plants, 160,000 miles of high-voltage power lines and 55,000 transmission substations. One challenge is that there's no single entity whose responsibilities ...

Wind turbines and solar panels have become the icons of renewable energy. But renewable energy is only as effective as the infrastructure that moves it around: the electrical grid. Cool devices to ...

A silicon valley startup wants you to have one less charger in your life thanks to its exercise-tracking smartwatch design that allows a wearable device to be powered via the user's own body heat.

SCIENTISTS have moved one step closer to the plot of the hit movie The Matrix by developing technology which is powered by energy created by the human body.

The power grid is growing increasingly complex as more renewable energy sources come online. Where once a small number of large power plants supplied most homes at a consistent flow, now millions ...

Morpheus said the net energy output of a human is 315 W of power. At 7.7 billion people on the planet, that would be a total energy output of 2,425,500,000,000 W. Or 2.4255 terawatts.

When extreme weather rolls through an area, a power outage may be on its heels. And some U.S. communities are at particular risk from power grid failures, research suggests — especially as human ...

One culprit is the extreme weather brought on by human-caused climate change. Another is the age of the grid, much of which was built in the 1960s and ’70s. That would be enough of a national ...

The company developed a product that captures energy produced from exercise and converts it to 100 percent green power. According to Whelan, a typical home uses about 600 kilowatts of electricity for ...

Threat Matrix brings you insight into the latest news and trends in cybersecurity and national security. In this episode of Threat Matrix, we look at a report released July 15 by a group of national ...