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Green Light for Tower Bridge Energy Efficiency Makeover

London's iconic Tower Bridge will be retrofitted with LED lights that save 40% on energy for illumination and have the ability to change…

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New Technology Improves Both Energy Capacity and Charge Rate in Rechargeable Batteries

By layering graphene sheets and silicon, researchers have developed an anode with storage capacity and recharge rates 10x higher than…

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Siemens Boosts Its Stake in Tidal Power

Despite tidal energy's limitations, Siemens makes a significant investment in tidal power because of its long-term predictability.

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Energy Efficiency Financing Could Create Jobs, Says New Report

A recent report says that greater investment in energy efficiency could achieve $200m in cost savings and create over 1 million jobs.

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John Bowers Wins 2012 John Tyndall Award

The Optical Society has awarded Institute Director John Bowers the prestigious John Tyndall award for his research in hybrid-silicon…

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Plasmonic Device Converts Light Into Electricity

A simple, easily fabricated metal-insulator-metal device has the ability to create electricity from a range of infrared and visible…

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NASA Using Solar to Achieve Limitless Flight

NASA is investing $89 million to see if it can achieve limitless flight using solar photovoltaic technology.

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Engineers Solve Energy Puzzle: How Energy Levels Align in a Critical Group of Advanced Materials

Researchers have made a critical discovery mapping out the energy interaction between transition metal oxides and organic materials,…

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Research Sparks Record-Breaking Solar Cell Performances

Berkeley Lab researchers approach theoretical efficiency for a solar cell by designing gallium arsenide panels that emit photons to…

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Use of Supercritical Water Could Cut Costs for Ethanol

A faster sugar-producing process using hot, pressurized water to break down wood chips could be the missing link in the evolution of…

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Batteries Get a Quick Charge with New Anode Technology

Researchers have developed an anode made of titanium dioxide nanotubes that, remarkably, improves battery performance over time by self-…

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Serious Energy to Bring Efficiency-as-a-Service to Market

In an effort to get building owners on-board with energy retrofits, one company is eliminating the hassle by managing every aspect of…

Industry and Business

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Solar Power Could Get Boost from New Light Absorption Design

A unique arrangement of silicon oxide and metal allows the absorption of broad wavelengths from many angles, an improvement that could…

Research

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Zinc Oxide Microwires Improve Performance of Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) Through the Piezo-Phototronic Effect

An advance in gallium nitride LEDs boosts the efficiency at which they produce ultraviolet light, with promising applications for…

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Factoring energy efficiency into a home's value

Under the SAVE (Sensible Accounting to Value Energy) Act, estimated energy-consumption expenses for a house would be included as a…

Industry and Business

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Lighting Sheets Made of Tiny LEDs

Nth Degree Technologies is exploring the use of gallium nitride 'ink' to print flexible, paper-like LED lighting sheets.

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