As defined by the IEEE 754 standard, floating-point values are represented in three fields: a significand or mantissa, a sign bit for the significand and an exponent field. The exponent is a biased ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Dec. 14, 2011) -- The endangered Least Tern has a new island to call home on the Mississippi River thanks to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - St. Louis District, the Dredge Potter ...

Moored to the ocean floor or anchored to docks, the floating living units created by Stephens Waring Design want to reimagine shoreline housing. The concept is called OASys and provides unbridled ...

A project aiming to provide flexible floating city spaces in wet slums has won the 2012 Architecture & Sea Level Rise award. The floating urban structures are called City Apps and can plug gaps in a ...

Bluewater Energy Services has won a grant from the Dutch government to build a flexible floating solar demonstration project in the North Sea. The system uses flexible thin-film PV modules and ...

A U.S.-Finnish research team has developed an after-market method to adapt commercially available flexible thin-film solar panels for applications in floating PV projects. The special panel design can ...

Floating energy storage systems are being developed for use in areas wanting to increase their use of renewable energy, but with constraints on the land available that could be used for solar and wind ...

This floating PV system solution is based on the actual application needs of the current market, continuing the three major advantages of high efficiency and flexibility, ultimate safety, and ...

The FF-Cap X7R multilayer-ceramic capacitor combines floating-electrode/cascading-electrode design and flexible-termination technology. The technology provides 5 mm ...