Even without hurricanes, customers in Puerto Rico lose about 27 hours of power per year

Published: 13 August 2025
Categories: US Energy Information Administration

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August 13, 2025

Even without accounting for electricity interruptions resulting from major events such as hurricanes, customers in Puerto Rico experienced on average 27 hours of power grid interruptions per year between 2021 and 2024. By comparison, electricity customers in the mainland United States generally experience about two hours of electricity interruptions per year without major events.

Hurricanes and other major events add to the outage time customers experience. In August 2024, Hurricane Ernesto affected at least 1 million customers in Puerto Rico. On average in 2024, customers in Puerto Rico went without electricity for more than 73 hours, of which 43 hours were attributed to major events such as hurricanes. In September 2022, Hurricane Fiona left all 1.5 million electricity customers in Puerto Rico without power. The average customer in Puerto Rico experienced almost

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Tiny chip could unlock gamma ray lasers, cure cancer, and explore the multiverse

Published: 13 August 2025
Categories: Engineering News

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A groundbreaking quantum device small enough to fit in your hand could one day answer one of the biggest questions in science — whether the multiverse is real. This tiny chip can generate extreme electromagnetic fields once only possible in massive, miles-long particle colliders. Beyond probing the fabric of reality, it could lead to powerful gamma ray lasers capable of destroying cancer cells at the atomic level, offering a glimpse into a future where the deepest mysteries of the universe and life-saving medical breakthroughs are unlocked by technology no bigger than your thumb.

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Assistant / Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Biomechanics

Published: 12 August 2025
Categories: Eng Jobs Academic Keys

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The Department of Biomechanics and the NIH COBRE Center for Cardiovascular Research in Biomechanics (CRiB) at the University of Nebraska Omaha are seeking candidates for a tenure-track faculty position in cardiovascular biomechanics.

UNO’s Department of Biomechanics is one of the few academic departments dedicated entirely to Biomechanics in the United States. It offers undergraduate, Master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in Biomechanics, and Biomechanics & Kinesiology. The Department has a strong focus on research, and over half of its tenure-track and tenured faculty are Principal Investigators on major federal grants, including NIH R01s. Since its inception in 2016, the Department has grown to 18 tenure-track and tenured faculty who have acquired over $50 million in federal funding. The Department occupies the Biomechanics Research Building, which has 53,000 square feet of shared laboratory space, offices, and collaboration space dedicated to translational biomedical research. The building is located

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