The U.S. west is suffering a major heat wave which may result in rolling blackouts and reminders not to charge electric cars in the afternoon. With California also ordering that all cars by 2035 be ...

My brother once tried to plug everything he could think of into one power strip to keep his room tidy; a toaster, his laptop, a fan, a heater. Well, the whole darn thing tripped the circuit and we ...

Electric cars won't overwhelm the US grid anytime soon, energy and transportation experts say. EVs don't consume a lot of energy now, and it will be decades before electric cars take over fully. EVs ...

MARSHALL COUNTY, W.Va. — Power strips for outlets are convenient -- if they’re used correctly. And the Moundsville Fire Department wants you to know how to use one safely, or else you could find the ...

Designers parallel their power supplies to increase system power output or to provide fault tolerance. In this column, Contributing Editor Tom Curatolo discusses various techniques for load sharing ...

I have a small dorm fridge, but the place where I want/need/can only put it requires me to plug it into a generic power strip.<BR><BR>The "Compact Refrigerator" is rated: 120V, 60Hz (AC), 15 ...