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Power Assure Raises $13.5M to Keep the Data Center Energy Efficient

A plethora of start-ups have sprung up to manage data center energy usage, including UC Santa Barbara's recent start-up, Transphorm,…

Industry and Business

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Better Lithium-Ion Batteries Are On the Way

Scientists at UC Berkeley have discovered a new, polyfluorene-based conducting polymer that may lead to the use of silicon within…

Research

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Tax Plan to Turn Old Buildings ‘Green’ Finds Favor

Lockheed and Barclays plan to invest $650 million to upgrade older buildings in the Miami and Sacramento areas.

Industry and Business

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UCSB Professor Develops Efficient Light Displays

UCSB Professor Shuji Nakamura to receive an Emmy for inventing high efficiency blue and green LEDs.

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UCSB Professor Develops Efficient Light Displays

UCSB Professor Shuji Nakamura to receive an Emmy for inventing high efficiency blue and green LEDs.

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Will Super Wi-Fi Live Up To Its Name?

The next generation of wireless offers a wider range and larger capacity, though also faces a number of legal hurtles.

Industry and Business

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Nanotube Cables Hit a Milestone: As Good as Copper

Materials researchers at Rice University have created carbon nanotubes with the ability to carry as much current as regular copper wires…

Research

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Shuji Nakamura to Receive Emmy Award

Shuji Nakamura, an Institute faculty member, has won a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award. Nakamura is being recognized for his…

Awards and Accolades

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British to Test Geoengineering Scheme

Researchers will soon attempt to pump water a kilometer into the air to test a geoengineering technique for offsetting the warming…

Research

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World's Largest Concentrating Solar PV Project Moves Ahead

Cogentrix secures DOE loan for world's largest concentrating solar photovoltaic plant to be built in southern-central Colorado.

Industry and Business

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A New and Improved Moore's Law

"Koomey's law" claims that at a fixed computing load, the battery power needed will drop by a factor of two approximately every 18…

Research

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Peering into a Quantum Well

UCSB research team cracks root cause of "LED droop."

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Why the Next Steve Jobs Will be in Energy, Not Computers

Will the world's energy problems be solved in a manner similar to the way that Apple changed computers?

Industry and Business

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Brazilian Football Stadium Installs 403kWp Solar Array

The Estádio de Pituacu is the first football stadium in Latin America to install solar panels.

Industry and Business

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The First Fully Stretchable OLED

Researchers at UCLA are on their way to developing the first OLED display screens that can stretch, shrink and fold.

Research

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Power-Scavenging Batteries

MicroGen Systems is developing low-cost, energy-harvesting chips that convert mechanical energy into electricity from environmental…

Industry and Business