First-fire has been achieved at NET Power’s supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO₂) power plant—a test facility in La Porte, Texas, to demonstrate the potentially revolutionary natural gas–fueled Allam ...

NET Power, developer of the novel Allam-Fetvedt supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2) power cycle, will build its first 300-MW natural gas–fired power plant at an Occidental-hosted site near Odessa, ...

Nearing completion in Texas, a 50-MW power plant will demonstrate a first-of-a-kind natural-gas power system. Its developer claims the system, which uses supercritical carbon-dioxide working fluid, ...

Turning an electronic device off and on. Power cycling can be done manually by pressing the on/off button or remotely via the network. Power cycling is often the remedy for myriad problems, because ...

Sometimes connectivity problems go away by power cycling a router. It’s a simple but inconvenient solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist, but that didn’t stop [Mike Diamond] from automating it for ...

Flicking a circuit breaker to power cycle hundreds of desktop computers inside interactive museum exhibits is hardly ideal. Computers tend to get cranky when improperly shutdown, and there’s an ...