The Indiana State Museum will provide a platform that showcases how individuals and companies can tackle environmental issues at the annual Going Green Festival on Friday, March 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday, March 15 from 11 a.m. ...
What people who are increasingly demanding graphene commercialization avenues often miss is that a good portion of the research into the “wonder material” remains just figuring out what it can do. In the continuing research to ...
Tags: Graphene Films, Wireless Networks, Security
Dell has joined The Alliance for Wireless Power A4WP today, becoming the first major PC original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to join a wireless power standards organization. Dell joins an existing A4WP membership that has grown to over 80 ...
Tags: A4WP, Wireless Power, charging surface, smartphone
People have long known there is energy in wastewater; extracting it economically is the problem. Startup Cambrian Innovation claims its technology can do it and a brewery and a winery are now using it to clean their wastewater while ...
Tags: energy in wastewater, reduced energy costs, wastewater reuse
IBM has built on their previous graphene research and developed what is being reported as the best graphene-based integrated circuit (IC) built to date, with 10 000 times better performance than previously reported efforts. This ...
Tags: IBM Research, Silcon Technology, IC, THz
When it comes to storing energy on the grid, giant batteries are the only game in town. Now, a number of companies are building mechanical systems that use air as the storage medium. U.K.-based Highview Power Storage last week said that ...
Tags: Liquefied Air, Electronics
Demand for active and intelligent packaging in the US alone is forecast to expand 8.0% annually to US$3.5 billion in 2017. It is the fastest growing packaging segment worldwide. Food and beverage made up 65% of demand in 2012. That is ...
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The Orange County Water District (OCWD) in California, USA, has been awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2014 for its pioneering work in groundwater management and water reclamation using advanced water reuse technologies, as well as its ...
Mexico's main trucking association has filed a $30 billion arbitration action against the United States over the country's refusal to fully allow Mexican carriers to operate within U.S. boundaries. The Cámara Nacional del ...
Tags: Transportation
A demonstration truck built by Cummins Inc. and Peterbilt Motors Co. achieved a 10.7 mile-per-gallon fuel economy reading last month under real-world driving conditions, the companies announced. The project is part of the U.S. Department ...
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Quantum mechanics offers the potential for creating communication technologies with an inherently higher security level than today's classical technologies. Using quantum digital signatures (QDS), for example, messages can be sent to ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
In the presence of guests from Germany and South Africa(including politicians,business and technical partners),Photovoltaic Technology Intellectual Property(Pty)Ltd(PTiP)-a spin-off from the University of Johannesburg-has officially ...
Tags: Singulus CIGS/CIS PV, CIGS, solar module
In October of last year, a team from NASA and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory made space communications history by beaming data, via laser, at speeds reaching 622 megabits per second, to Earth from a spacecraft orbiting the moon. Radio-frequency ...
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has loaned Austrian textile company Lezning AG €100 million to help finance research and development (R&D) activities and investment in Tencel fibre production. Lenzing, which specializes in making ...
Tags: cellulose fibers
China officially provided its new nation-wide aim of solar system installation this year – 14GW on the 2014 National Energy Workshop held this month, which is higher than the target set earlier. In the address given by Wu ...
Tags: Solar System, Green Energy