Security standards for industrial controllers, devices, and networks are still a work in progress. Initial efforts involved device and process certification requirements developed by security companies such as Wurldtech/Achilles. Today, the ISA99 industrial cyber security committee is driving an ind

"Glass Is Life." A promotional and educational Web site developed by glass packaging giant Owens-Illinois features videos, social networking forums, and case studies to illustrate the versatility of glass. Glass, states the promo, is a safe and inert packaging material, a fact further highlighted by

Are phones in smartphones relevant? According to a survey by social communications platform, CloudTalk, speaking on the phone is not even in the top three favorite activities in which people engage on their smart phones. Texting, emailing, and social networking come first. Meanwhile, researchers in

While some of you may already be cleaning the carburetor on the old 1971 Arctic Cat Puma, Ford faithful should take note that winter snows are no match for this 1929 Model A equipped with tracks and skis. If recent events in Vermont have taught us anything, it is that preparedness is good -

From BBC News - Science & Environment:

The Russian space agency says the Soyuz rocket that failed while carrying cargo to the International Space Station had a production line defect.

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During a recent trip to Milwaukee, I had the opportunity to hang out with Tony Stevens, Brooks Stevens's grandson, for part of a day, and came across this most unusual remnant of the Brooks Stevens collection.

According to Tony, it's a Willys six-cylinder with a casting number of 905101, but

The Kepler space telescope has discovered 1100 candidate extra-solar planets, 54 of which are orbiting in a zone where they would potentially have liquid water. It seems inevitable that sooner or later, we'll detect a planet with the building blocks of life. When we do that, what should our next ste

Hi, We need some filter or anything which could trap Sulphuric Acid particles from Steam. Steam is being used in process and as its being generated from flash, it contains acid carryover so anyone knows anything how to mitigate or trap acid particles from steam? Thanks

i am a fresh graduated mechanical engineer , and i have a job opportunity in working as a sales engineer in pumps company , my duty is just to sells pump , do you recommend me to work in it ? dose this job have a good future ? do you think if i work for just one year in pump sales will give me an ex

sir/madam, i am gurumurthy doing mtech on thermal power engineering and i have selected turbulent flame in an enclosed chamber as the academic project, please help me to get more information on this topic

Hi there, My mom's 90 Subaru Legacy with 90K miles on it just had a transmission replaced. The cruise control was working fine until the trans swap. Now it doesn't work at all. The light goes on when I push the CC button on the dash but that is it....The mechanic says that he didn't touch the cruise

If it is more or less clear with an electric field, it is less so with the el magnetic.

let 's imagine a simplified AC source, having at first a resistive load, so :

at 0 V of a sinusoidal emf no electrons are moving from the - to +.

in the middle of the let' s say positive rise of the emf 50 ele

Can anybody give the standard UTE C15=500 (Cenelec Report R064-003)

Vacuum denotes a field magnetically unfilled wth space and vacant of mediumistic material substances. The Energy of the Vacuum is nothing but the underlying background energy which exists within space, even when the space is devoid of mediumistic material substances of nature in accordance with unco

what are the standard values of busbar current for substation of hydroelectric power plant eg. like 200A, 3150A, 4000A etc? what are the corresponding short circuit values?

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From Default- Tech - USATODAY.com:

As the scope of the problem grows, the administration has sharpened calls for space-faring nations to confront space junk.

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The motorcycle that I built was never intended for more than puttering around parking lots, so the conversion to fully legal race bike took several months of planning and work. The first major concern was installing a kill switch and a reliable electrical system to operate it.

Unlike gasoline

From Wired Top Stories:

The claim: A stack of one trillion one-dollar bills would reach to the moon and back four times. Physicist Rhett Allain tests this and estimates the size of a $1 trillion "cashteroid."

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