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Sensor networks are now commonly used for jobs like monitoring and managing heat and light in buildings. Now they’re being deployed underwater, to gain insights about environmental conditions beneath the oceans.
But lots of problems make underwater sensor networks difficult. Wireless signal propagation, short bandwidth, limited battery life and also a highly corrosive environment where fouling [...]

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It didn’t command headlines but an important piece of legislation passed recently that involves water research.
The House of Representatives on April 23 passed H.R. 1145, the National Water Research and Development Initiative Act of 2009. It’s designed to coordinate national research-and-development efforts regarding water use, supply and demand.
The problem is Americans are drinking a [...]

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No doubt, cleantech companies were upbeat when the White House stimulus package allocated 13 percent of the total $104 billion stimulus package for green technology. Much of the economic stimulus will flow to cleantech infrastructure, but exactly where will it go?
Cleantech sectors, which were big winners, include smart grid technology with $4.5 billion, energy efficiency [...]

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