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Smart grid innovations booming with Asia as emerging hub

Smart Energy International

Smart grid innovations reached their highest level in 2022, the IEA reveals in a new review of patent data. In 2011 there were 2,000 unique smart grid inventions produced, representing 11% of power sector innovations. Source: IEA analysis based on European Patent Office (2024), PATSTAT patents database (using the Spring 2023 edition).

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The Bitcoin Blockchain Helps Hold A Botnet From Being Taken Down

Mearth

The botnet Akamai analyzed makes use of the computing assets and electrical energy supply of contaminated machines to mine the Monero cryptocurrency. The system is secure as long as sincere nodes collectively control more CPU energy than any cooperating group of attacker nodes.