All News News Type - Any -AlumniAwards and AccoladesGeneralGraduateIn the NewsIndustry and BusinessNewsletterResearchUndergraduate Year - Any -2024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012 Related IEE Person Apply Researchers Show Simple But Effective Discoveries That Could Enhance Wind Turbines’ Efficiency by 18 Percent Potential improvements to wind turbine efficiency include (1) using computers to measure the airflow over blade surfaces and adjust the… November 23, 2010 Research Boeing Shatters Solar Power Record with 39.2% Cell Efficiency Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab's solar panels supply power to over 60% of orbiting satellites, but the company may soon be known for… November 22, 2010 Industry and Business Are Efficient LED Bulbs Worth the Price? Energy-efficient LED bulbs have been improving in terms of brightness, color and price, but do the efficiency savings pay for themselves… November 19, 2010 Industry and Business Cell-Phone Chips to the Rescue In an effort to reduce the cost of cooling microprocessor chips, data centers are looking to low-power chips used in cell phones and… November 18, 2010 Industry and Business The “Smart Grid”: An Overview This blog entry provides a nice overview of today's electricity and transmission grid -- and tomorrow's "smarter" version. It includes… November 18, 2010 Industry and Business Thuc-Quyen Nguyen Wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the… November 18, 2010 Awards and Accolades Time to Change Habits, As Well As Light Bulbs? A recent report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy stresses the need for energy efficiency programs that change… November 18, 2010 Industry and Business Welcome to Techtopia: Santa Barbara is a Tech Company Hotspot Three local tech CEOs talk on CNBC's power lunch clip about about why Santa Barbara is a great place for tech businesses; one asset is… November 18, 2010 Industry and Business Beyond Demand Response: EnerNOC Expands Demand response company EnerNOC has launched EfficiencySMART, a line of business software designed to help companies better control… November 17, 2010 Industry and Business Energy Efficiency Can Conflict with Renewables Co-generation of heat from coal power plants increases energy efficiency, but the resultant reliance on coal plants to supply heat… November 16, 2010 Industry and Business GE Announces Ecomagination Challenge Winners The 12 winners of GE's Ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid include an energy-efficient solar-powered cooling/heating technology,… November 16, 2010 Industry and Business Four Ways to Harvest Solar Energy from Roads Researchers at the University of Rhode Island have identified a number of ways to harvest waste heat from asphalt roads, including… November 15, 2010 Research Solar Arrays Do Double-Duty Cogenra Solar has developed a hybrid solar array that produces electricity and uses waste heat to provide hot water. The company says it… November 15, 2010 Industry and Business The Great White Hope for White LEDs: Zinc Oxide Startup EcoSpark believes it can produce a white light LED using zinc oxide. Unlike blue, gallium nitride LEDs, EcoSpark's bulb doesn't… November 12, 2010 Industry and Business ESL Bulbs 70 Percent More Efficient Than Incandescents New bulbs created by Vu1 Corporation that use electron stimulated luminescence are cheaper than LEDs and 70% more efficient than… November 11, 2010 Industry and Business EPA to Push Efficiency on Big Carbon Emitters The EPA announced that instead of mandating specific control technologies when it begins regulating greenhouse gas emissions next year,… November 10, 2010 Industry and Business Pagination First page « Previous page ‹ … Page 75 Current page 76 Page 77 Page 78 … Next page › Last page »
