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Starbucks has replaced every incandescent and halogen bulb in their US coffee stores with LEDs; company-wide, the switch has reduced…

Despite urgent calls from the White House and members of Congress this year about the need for more energy R&D, government funding…

New graphene ultracapacitors have five times the energy density of current commercial devices, thanks to the increased surface area of…

According to a new report by Pike Research, the rapid growth of cloud computing could reduce energy usage in the global information…

Startup IceCode won GE's Ecomagination Challenge last month for a technology that instantly removes ice from wind turbines. Now they…

A new display technology that uses quantum dots for pixels could be easier to manufacture, brighter, and possibly more energy-efficient…

The Department of Energy has rolled out a program to donate billions of supercomputing hours to projects that are working on energy…

Start-up Qnovo intends to help customers get the most out of batteries through electronics. Qnovo’s is bypassing new production lines…

Greetings! 

UC Santa Barbara is back in session and we have a full and exciting year ahead of us.  The Institute is…

Nissan has unveiled a new gas pedal that uses resistance to discourage drivers from pressing the pedal to the metal. The new system is…

Potential improvements to wind turbine efficiency include (1) using computers to measure the airflow over blade surfaces and adjust the…

Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab's solar panels supply power to over 60% of orbiting satellites, but the company may soon be known for…

Energy-efficient LED bulbs have been improving in terms of brightness, color and price, but do the efficiency savings pay for themselves…

In an effort to reduce the cost of cooling microprocessor chips, data centers are looking to low-power chips used in cell phones and…

This blog entry provides a nice overview of today's electricity and transmission grid -- and tomorrow's "smarter" version. It includes…

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the…