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Solar Decathlon 2011 Has A Winner
Posted in Building Technologies, News, Videos, Green Design & Manufacturing, Recycling Technologies, Solar Power, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Energy, GDM on Monday, October 03 2011
The University of Maryland has won top honors at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 by designing, building, and operating the most cost-effective, energy efficient, and attractive solar-powered house. Purdue University took second place followed by New Zealand (Victoria University of Wellington) in third.
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Thermal Energy Harvesting Enables Wireless Sensor Deployment
Posted in Waste-to-Energy, Products, Batteries, Electronics & Computers, Green Design & Manufacturing, Recycling Technologies, Thermoelectrics, Energy Harvesting, Energy, GDM on Monday, September 26 2011
Marlow Industries (Dallas, TX) has introduced the EverGen series of thermoelectric-based energy harvesting devices, offering a zero-maintenance power solution for wireless sensor applications. EverGen thermal energy harvesters power wireless sensors without a battery, reducing replacement costs.
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Human Gait to Power Portable Electronics
Posted in Pollution, News, Batteries, Electronics & Computers, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Energy, GDM on Friday, August 26 2011
Engineering researchers Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new energy-harvesting technology that could reduce our dependence on batteries and instead capture the energy of human motion to power portable electronics.
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With Photovoltaic Polarizers, Devices Could be Powered by Sunlight
Posted in Piezoelectrics, News, Solar Power, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Energy, GDM on Wednesday, August 10 2011
UCLA engineers have created a novel concept for harvesting and recycling energy for electronic devices — one that involves equipping these devices' LCD screens with built-in photovoltaic polarizers, allowing them to convert ambient light, sunlight, and even their own backlight into electricity.
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LAUNCH: Energy Challenge Is Open For Submissions
Posted in News, Energy Storage, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Energy, Government Initiatives, Government, GDM on Tuesday, August 02 2011
NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of State, and NIKE formed LAUNCH to identify, showcase, and support innovative approaches to global challenges through a series of forums. The LAUNCH: Energy Challenge has begun and focuses on sustainable energy challenges for the developed and developing worlds.
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Thermal Energy Harvesting Solution
Posted in Products, Thermoelectrics, Energy Harvesting, Energy, GDM on Friday, June 10 2011
Nextreme Thermal Solutions (Durham, NC) and Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (APEI) (Fayetteville, AR) are developing a thermal energy harvesting solution for a wireless sensor system to monitor the health of bearings in turbine engines. The energy harvester is based on Nextreme's Thermobility wireless power generation platform and will be integrated into APEI's high-temperature wireless sensor electronics package.
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Insight into Bacteria for Solar Energy
Posted in News, Solar Power, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Harvesting, Energy, GDM on Thursday, March 24 2011
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have used small-angle neutron scattering to analyze the structure of chlorosomes in green photosynthetic bacteria. Chlorosomes are efficient at collecting sunlight for conversion to energy, even in low-light and extreme environments.
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