In the next 40 years, California’s population is expected to surge from 37 million to 55 million and the demand for energy is expected to double. Given those…
Researchers in the college’s Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering are experimenting with different strains of bacteria that can ferment sugars…
University’s Pair of World-Class Research Centers Investigate the “Whys and Hows” of LightingLighting technology touches nearly everything we do—from…
Some forms of technology — think, for example, of computer chips — are on a fast track to constant improvements, while others evolve much more slowly. Now, a…
Efficiency is a problem with today's solar panels; they only collect about 20 percent of available light. Now, a University of Missouri engineer has developed…
The high-efficiency thermal waste heat energy converter actively cools electronic devices, photovoltaic cells, computers and large waste heat-producing systems…
Driven by the ever-increasing market demands in computing, communication, and multimedia applications, the microelectronics industry has got rapid development…
Although both photosynthesis and photovoltaics harvest energy from the sun, they operate in distinctly different ways producing different fuels. It is not a…
Siemens has developed a new energy management system that helps plant operators in the iron and steel industry to monitor and optimize their energy flows. The…
Ranger, a bipedal robot built and programmed in Cornell’s Biorobotics and Locomotion lab, led by Andy Ruina, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,…
In a step toward engineering ever-smaller electronic devices, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have assembled…
MIT researchers have created a new detector so sensitive it can pick up a single molecule of an explosive such as TNT.To create the sensors, chemical engineers…
Senior Lecturer Dr Frank Neumann, from the School of Computer Science, is using a “selection of the fittest” step-by-step approach called “evolutionary…
Such a technology might be used to provide power and drinking water to villages and also for military operations, said Jerry Woodall, a Purdue University…
MIT researchers and their collaborators have come up with an unusual, high performance and possibly less expensive way of turning the sun’s heat into…
Beginning in 2013 the new HVDC PLUS technology will transmit 2,000 megawatts (MW) as direct current over a distance of 65 kilometers underground. This system,…
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