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Hydrobee Lets You Charge A Battery From A Fast-Flowing River To Juice Up USB Devices Off-Grid.

To help alleviate the problems of high cost and low availability of cellular network access in remote rural areas, researchers at the…

Philips has teamed up with Desso, a leading carpet and flooring company, to create "light transmissive carpets."

Rapid advances in computing technology have depended upon Moore's Law, which refers to the ability to scale down transistor size with…

Unite to Light, a nonprofit co-founded by UCSB Engineering professor and Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency, John Bowers,…

Conventional batteries take so long to charge that they cannot efficiently store braking energy. Graphene supercapacitors store almost…

With the complexity of future smart grids and the integration challenges posed by renewables, a deeper understanding of the grid’s…

Steven DenBaars, a research scientist at UC Santa Barbara, has been working on LED lights for 20 years. In his lab, DenBaars is already…

Predicting what the energy landscape will look like in 20 years.

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), led by material scientists Kristin Denault and Michael Cantore, have…

In most facilities, changing a light bulb is a pretty simple task. However, in a hospital, even minor tasks can be complicated.

Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara say that they have discovered how to formulate LED phosphors for better…

Sales of bulbs using light-emitting diodes are expected to increase sharply -- partly because some consumers complain about the bluish…

National Grid has opened a Sustainability Hub in Worcester, Massachusetts to educate the public on energy efficiency and emerging energy…

Professor Chris Van de Walle has been honored with the 2013 AVS Medard W. Welch and he plans to donate the award funds to support two…

Institute researchers have recently demonstrated an alternative to light emitting diodes (LEDs).