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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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Nanogenerator Powers Up

Researchers at Georgia Tech have used piezoelectric materials to make the first nanowire-based generators that can harvest enough…

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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…

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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…

Industry and Business

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

Awards and Accolades, Graduate

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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…

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