• The OpenLife Grid was a community virtual world developed by 3DX. It was founded in November 2007 by Australian Steve Sima, president of 3DX. The OpenLife...
    2 KB (95 words) - 06:30, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Second Life
    alternative grids began to emerge and many of these allow cross visits from other grids through the hypergrid protocol using OpenSimulator. Second Life residents...
    122 KB (13,101 words) - 04:16, 8 August 2024
  • Grid Legends is a 2022 racing video game developed by Codemasters and published by Electronic Arts. It is the fifth instalment in the Grid franchise. The...
    17 KB (1,512 words) - 02:34, 12 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vehicle-to-grid
    delivering electricity to the grid or reducing the rate of charge from the grid. Demand services reduce the peaks in demand for grid supply, and hence reduce...
    54 KB (5,764 words) - 23:36, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for National Grid (Great Britain)
    The National Grid is the high-voltage electric power transmission network serving Great Britain, connecting power stations and major substations, and ensuring...
    57 KB (5,947 words) - 20:10, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Smart grid
    The smart grid is an enhancement of the 20th century electrical grid, using two-way communications and distributed so-called intelligent devices. Two-way...
    121 KB (14,189 words) - 14:36, 5 August 2024
  • Grid Autosport is a 2014 racing video game developed by Codemasters for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux, iOS, macOS, Nintendo Switch...
    38 KB (3,858 words) - 16:40, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grid plan
    planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid. Two inherent...
    74 KB (9,077 words) - 20:27, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Virtual world
    Extended reality Metaverse Mirror world Multisensory extended reality OpenLife Grid Simulated reality Transreality gaming Virtual community Virtual globe...
    71 KB (8,149 words) - 16:06, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grid fin
    Grid fins (or lattice fins) are a type of flight control surface used on rockets and bombs, sometimes in place of more conventional control surfaces, such...
    11 KB (1,122 words) - 21:52, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for World Community Grid
    proprietary Grid MP client from United Devices and adding support for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) in 2005, World Community Grid eventually...
    96 KB (8,909 words) - 04:39, 13 August 2024
  • India Grid Trust (IndiGrid) is an Indian power sector infrastructure investment trust (InvIT), sponsored by KKR & Sterlite Power (SPTL). Established on...
    16 KB (1,354 words) - 06:12, 13 August 2024
  • OpenStructures is an open source modular construction model based on a shared geometrical grid, called the OS grid. It was conceived by designer Thomas...
    6 KB (657 words) - 09:31, 31 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Gridded ion thruster
    The gridded ion thruster is a common design for ion thrusters, a highly efficient low-thrust spacecraft propulsion method running on electrical power...
    14 KB (1,562 words) - 12:09, 23 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battery storage power station
    electric grids, and it is used to stabilise those grids, as battery storage can transition from standby to full power in under a second to deal with grid contingencies...
    48 KB (3,790 words) - 11:56, 19 July 2024
  • A grid connected system is connected to a larger independent grid (typically the public electricity grid) and feeds energy directly into the grid. This...
    124 KB (13,816 words) - 22:17, 11 August 2024
  • The D-Grid Initiative (German Grid Initiative) was a government project to fund computer infrastructure for education and research (e-Science) in Germany...
    11 KB (1,512 words) - 07:44, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diesel generator
    connection to a power grid or as an emergency power supply if the grid fails, as well as for more complex applications such as peak-lopping, grid support, and...
    21 KB (3,002 words) - 16:53, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grid energy storage
    Grid energy storage (also called large-scale energy storage) is a collection of methods used for energy storage on a large scale within an electrical power...
    80 KB (8,629 words) - 12:55, 25 July 2024
  • Gridders is a 1994 puzzle video game developed by Tetragon and published by The 3DO Company for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. It was also included as...
    15 KB (1,363 words) - 02:43, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Texas Interconnection
    alternating current (AC) power grid – a wide area synchronous grid – that covers most of the state of Texas. The grid is managed by the Electric Reliability...
    19 KB (1,883 words) - 14:37, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Conway's Game of Life
    other Turing machine. The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite, two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square cells, each of which is in one of two possible...
    53 KB (6,245 words) - 12:13, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Commissioners' Plan of 1811
    Houston Street and below 155th Street, which put in place the rectangular grid plan of streets and lots that has defined Manhattan on its march uptown until...
    135 KB (18,962 words) - 07:16, 12 August 2024
  • been raised in almost total isolation "living off-the-grid" in rural Scotland for most of her life by her overprotective survivalist mother, Tina (Sian...
    11 KB (407 words) - 09:03, 15 July 2024
  • Microgrid (category Electrical grid)
    local electrical grid with defined electrical boundaries, acting as a single and controllable entity. It is able to operate in grid-connected and in island...
    53 KB (5,989 words) - 07:50, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for OpenSimulator
    OpenSimulator can operate in one of two modes: standalone or grid mode. In standalone mode, a single process handles the entire simulation. In grid mode...
    6 KB (507 words) - 16:55, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Distributed generation
    energy, is electrical generation and storage performed by a variety of small, grid-connected or distribution system-connected devices referred to as distributed...
    53 KB (6,010 words) - 18:25, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fused grid
    The fused grid is a street network pattern first proposed in 2002 and subsequently applied in Calgary, Alberta (2006) and Stratford, Ontario (2004). It...
    64 KB (9,007 words) - 19:17, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Smart meter
    Smart meter (category Smart grid)
    central system. Smart meters may be part of a smart grid, but do not themselves constitute a smart grid. Such an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) differs...
    67 KB (7,652 words) - 05:16, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dropped ceiling
    referred to as a drop ceiling, T-bar ceiling, false ceiling, suspended ceiling, grid ceiling, drop in ceiling, drop out ceiling, or ceiling tiles and is a staple...
    26 KB (3,110 words) - 19:38, 14 August 2024