All News News Type - Any -AlumniAwards and AccoladesGeneralGraduateIn the NewsIndustry and BusinessNewsletterResearchUndergraduate Year - Any -2024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012 Related IEE Person Apply 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 Best of Energy Star Rating Coming in 2011 The Department of Energy plans to roll out a new "Most Efficient" Energy Star rating for products in the top of their categories. The… November 9, 2010 Industry and Business Nanogenerator Powers Up Researchers at Georgia Tech have used piezoelectric materials to make the first nanowire-based generators that can harvest enough… November 8, 2010 Research Why the Election Could be Good For Green Tech Michael Kanellos of Greentech Media argues that clean, green, efficient energy is a popular bi-partisan issue nationwide and that the… November 8, 2010 Industry and Business Energy Efficiency: Real Estate’s Next Granite Counter Top? Boston-based Conservation Services Group is working on a metric to describe a home’s energy efficiency value. The metric would be… November 5, 2010 Industry and Business Nice Ice, Baby: Ice-Rink Maker Finds Following with Thermal Energy Storage CALMAC's ICEBANK technology provides an energy-efficient alternative for cooling buildings by freezing ice at night (when energy costs… November 5, 2010 Industry and Business Microsoft-Backed Research Suggests Big Energy Reductions from Cloud A new report from Microsoft suggests that large businesses could reduce their direct energy consumption and carbon emissions by up to 30… November 4, 2010 Industry and Business CNN Video: LA's Lighting Revolution Institute faculty members Shuji Nakamura and Steven DenBaars are featured in a CNN video on L.A.'s investment in energy-efficient LEDs… October 27, 2010 In the News UCSB Launches New Terabit Optical Ethernet Center October 26, 2010 In the News UCSB Graduate Programs Among Top in U.S., According to New NRC Assessment A new report by the National Research Council reveals that UCSB's graduate programs are among the best in the country: nearly one third… September 28, 2010 Awards and Accolades, Graduate UCSB-led Consortium Picked for Photonic Chip Research Institute faculty member Larry Coldren will direct UCSB's new research consortium: Photonic Integration for Coherent Optics (PICO). The… September 26, 2010 In the News Pagination First page « Previous page ‹ … Page 77 Current page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Next page › Last page »