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5 Cleantech Milestones Worth Celebrating

GreenTech Media highlights five cleantech achievements reached in the first five months of 2013.

Industry and Business

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News Release: Institute Faculty Galen Stucky Elected to National Academy of Sciences

UC Santa Barbara professor of chemistry and of materials Galen Stucky was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for…

Awards and Accolades

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UCTV Series: Lighting the World

The four-part series "Lighting the World" by UCTV honors Institute Faculty Shuji Nakamura for his work on LEDs. The series shows how…

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Nano-Engineering Boosts Efficiency of Materials That Convert Waste Heat to Electrical Energy

High-performance thermoelectric materials that convert waste heat to electricity could one day be a source of more sustainable power. A…

Research

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Fuel Cells Could Offer Cheap Carbon Dioxide Storage

The electrochemical reactions that occur inside fuel cells to generate electricity could provide a cheap way to selectively remove…

Research

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Soraa Requests EPA’s ENERGY STAR Program to Address LED Lighting Color Quality

Soraa, a LED company founded by leading Institute Faculty, has asked the EPA to address lighting color quality in the next ENERGY STAR…

Industry and Business

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How Gallium Nitride Could Help Power the World

Institute Faculty Umesh Mishra is featured in a Pacific Standard article discussing Mishra's work on power conversion. “When gallium-…

Industry and Business

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Technology Can Turn Waste Heat Into Electricity at Temperatures As Low As 86 Degrees

Roughly 20 to 50 percent of energy consumed in the world is dispersed as heat. A company has come up with a way to harness waste heat as…

Industry and Business

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Moth Eyes Inspire More Efficient Thin-Film Solar Cells

Researchers study moths' eyes to solve one of thin-film solar technology's biggest problems: light reflection between films that causes…

Research

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Ernest Moniz Gives His First Speech as Energy Secretary

Ernest Moniz of MIT gets sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Energy. In his first speech as Secretary of Energy, Moniz makes it clear that…

Industry and Business

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Closing the Climate Science Gap

Although over 97 percent of scientific papers point to humans as the cause of climate change, surveys show that Americans are pretty…

Research

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Which States Use the Most Green Energy?

Mother Jones features an interactive map and article showing the 2011 renewable energy consumption in each of the 50 U.S. states.

Industry and Business

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UK to Match Funds for Commercial Energy Efficiency

The British government is encouraging UK businesses to invest in energy-efficient technologies with their matching funds incentive,…

Industry and Business

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Carbon Dioxide levels in the Atmosphere Hit 400 PPM

On May 3rd, the carbon-dioxide concentration in the atmosphere around the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii hit 400 parts per million,…

Research

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This ‘Monumental Shift’ in the US Buildings Sector May Surprise You

New analysis shows that the US building sector has made tremendous improvements in energy efficiency over the last six years --…

Industry and Business

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Can Carbon Capture Clean Up Canada’s Oil Sands?

Alberta will serve as a test bed for large-scale carbon capture and sequestration.

Industry and Business