consume and manage energy and by allowing users to have better control of their energy sources,
the design moves the world to a more sustainable self sufficiency. it addresses the challenge of energy consumption at a personal,
national and global level. it benefits the everyday user and community alongside working towards a worldwide future solution. jury member arnold wasserman,
chairman of the idea factory and partner at collective innovation, describes the project t an absolute game-changer. energy self-sufficiency what could be bigger than that?
CEO elon musk believes the owerwallwill aid the development of remote communities. he speculates the batteries will help people in emerging markets or remote locations to eapfrogthe need for existing power systems,
and it has potential to level out energy consumption, explains index award jury member katinka von der lippe. costing approximately $3, 500 US,
the lithium ion batteries will allow owners to store energy generated during the day and use it at night,
or six times with improvements in the design. UK firm Tokamak Energy is proposing something very similar
#Wastewater treatment Captures Carbon emissions, Produces Energy A wastewater treatment process developed by engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder mitigates carbon dioxide emissions and actively captures greenhouse gases.
while creating renewable energy in the process. his energy-positive, carbon-negative method could potentially contain huge benefits for a number of emission-heavy industries,
Plus, existing wastewater treatment technologies consume high amounts of energy. Public utilities in the US treat an estimated 12 trillion gallons of municipal wastewater each year
and consume about 3 percent of the nation grid energy. Existing carbon capture technologies are energy-intensive and often entail costly transportation and storage procedures.
MECC uses the natural conductivity of saline wastewater to facilitate an electrochemical reaction that is designed to absorb CO2 from both the water and the air.
and harnessed as energy in a fuel cell. The findings offer the possibility that wastewater could be treated effectively on-site without the risks
The company accomplished this by using energy more efficiently across its facilities and by converting to less greenhouse gas-intensive forms of energy.
#Waste-to-Energy project to Reduce GHGS by 40k Tons Annually The New york city metro area first large-scale waste-to-energy project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 40,000 tons annually, according to New york Gov. Andrew Cuomo,
American Organic Energy will operate the digester which will process over twice as much food waste as currently processed at any existing privately owned food waste digesters accepting offsite food waste in New york state.
What is more, the energy from the laser causes the blood to coagulate on the wound, which prevents bleeding.
and to influence the amount of energy and carbon the plant dedicated to producing these natural compounds.
and flavanoids and to devote more of energy to doing this in fruit. Introducing both Atmyb12
In Science Advances, the researchers report the discovery of an optical effect that allows them to"tune"the energy of electrons in these materials using light,
a tiny trap for electrons, only a hundred nanometers wide, in which owing to quantum mechanics the electrons exist in well-defined energy states similar to those of an atom.
reducing energy costs for ink curing. Once dry, the'electric ink'is also waterproof and adheres to its substrate extremely well.
energy harvesters and RFID tags g
#To infinity and beyond: Light goes infinitely fast with new on-chip material Electrons are so 20th century.
or squished, twisted or turned, without losing energy. A zero-index material that fits on a chip could have exciting applications, especially in the world of quantum computing."
"Integrated photonic circuits are hampered by weak and inefficient optical energy confinement in standard silicon waveguides,
and lowering the energy requirements of the transistor. The implementation of vanadium dioxide can also benefit existing memory technologies
which act to minimize the energy of the defects, attract the dislocations closer to the free surfaces and force them out of the crystal.
Organisms such as barnacles and algae create drag and increased energy expenditure, not to mention the costs of cleaning
detailed in Nature Communications, is a significant step toward lower-cost catalysts for energy production, according to the researchers."
With that knowledge, Sykes and his fellow chemists turned to long-time Tufts collaborator Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Ph d.,the Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professor in Energy Sustainability at the School of engineering,
"AMPK, or AMP-activated protein kinase, coordinates cellular energy use. For the study, the team activated AMPK signaling with drugs that have been used medically to protect heart tissue during surgery
In Science Advances, the researchers report the discovery of an optical effect that allows them to"tune"the energy of electrons in these materials using light,
'and has done that to focus its energies on being able to germinate and grow quickly, rapidly flower,
#Breakthrough to the development of energy saving devices for the next generation Wide-gap semiconductors such as gallium nitride (Gan) are used widely for optical devices such as blue LED
and are anticipated also as materials for next-generation energy saving power devices and solar cells. However, the quality of Gan crystals does not come up to that of conventional semiconductor materials such as silicon (Si)
and energy devices. The group examined the intensity distribution of THZ generated by radiating ultraviolet femtosecond laser pulses on the surface of Gan crystal through LTEM.
Furthermore, from results measurement through modification of excited lasers, it was confirmed that THZ emission needs excitation light with larger energy than the band gap energy y
they won deposit enough energy for cutting. In doped glass fibers, the aman gainis usually limited by line broadening effects.
anything that has significant amounts of water is a potential absorber of IR energy across a fairly wide band.
blasting apart matter so violently that even hadrons can form takes a lot of input energy. In general, it been assumed that any particle collider looking to create a sample of quark-gluon plasma would have to smash together very heavy atomic nuclei.
it become increasingly difficult to increase performance without skyrocketing power consumption and heat. Intel CPU clock speeds have remained mostly flat for years,
while AMD FX-9590 and its R9 Nano GPU both illustrate dramatic power consumption differences as clock speeds change.
even with modern power consumption scaling n
#A possible broad spectrum cancer cure is in the offing, but human trials could be up to 4 years away For almost
Massachusetts institute of technology spin out Cambridge Electronics Inc (CEI) has announced a line of Gan transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to cut energy usage in data centres, electric cars,
waste energy as heat. CEI Gan transistors have at least one-tenth the resistance of such silicon-based transistors,
and release energy. Aluminum-ion technology is an environmentally friendly alternative to disposable alkaline batteries too.
the research team will have to improve the cathode material to increase the voltage and energy density.
That the view of energy and utility experts assembled by Public utilities Fortnightly at its energy, money and power conference last week in WASHINGTON DC.
Just ask Centerpoint Energy Inc. and DTE ENERGY Co, . which have invested hundreds of millions of dollars (with some federal help) to improve performance over their wires.
Christopher Berkey/AP Images for S&c Electric company) Today, the bulk power system as it is known is comprised of 10,000 power plants, 170,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines and nearly 6 million miles of low-voltage distribution lines.
With that, it sees 19,700 megawatts of wind going up before 2020 that will also demand investments in energy storage that can harness the power
adds Philip Moeller, commissioner at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). ou can just snap your fingers.
allowing for more efficient and cleaner transportation of energy. But network expansion will also be necessary,
but even the two data points of sleep and physical activity have augmented my own reflections on personal health, energy, and mood.
Central to the concept of onsite generation that links with microgrids is energy storage, which can harness electricity
unveiled late Thursday night, dominated energy news all weekend, but the real news was the price tag on its utility-scale big sister, the Powerpack:
Utilities would make batteries available to independent companies participating in regional wholesale energy markets, auctioning off battery capacity
ut as prices decline for energy storage, we expect a substantial broadening of the economically viable projects.
The Michigan company Xalt Energy markets a lithium-ion battery that it says can cycle 4, 000 to 8, 000 times.
The ethod and system for shockwave attenuation via electromagnetic arcisn quite the all-purpose energy shield you see around spaceships in movies like Star wars,
and distance of the shockwave relative to the rotected asset The system would then calculate a firing plan for an arc generator that capable of dispersing the energy density of the shockwave.
the lights will be lowered, providing additional energy savings. If a dangerous gas is detected in the air, or if a person using a restroom leaves it odorous,
in some applications, reduce energy costs in a building by up to 90%.%But these gains are created not simply through the power reduction that LEDS bring,
global energy use traditionally increases and energy-related carbon dioxide emissions also go up. Only when economies stumble and businesses shutter as during the most recent financial crisis does energy use typically decline,
in turn bringing down planet-warming emissions. But for the first time in nearly half a century, that synchrony between economic growth and energy-related emissions seems to have been broken
according to the Paris-based International Energy Agency, prompting its chief economist to wonder if an important new pivot point has been reached one that decouples economic vigor and carbon pollution.
The IEA pegged carbon dioxide emissions for 2014 at 32.3 billion metric tons essentially the same volume as 2013,
and economics are unlikely to be realized, given changes in energy consumption patterns in various countries and the status of ultimately recoverable fossil fuel resources globally. n a business-as usual situation,
and installation alternative energy generation technologies to improve their energy and economic security. There is clear evidence of this already occurring in Europe and China especially.
The design, described in the journal Energy and Environmental science, consists of three main components: two electrodesne photoanode and one photocathodend a membrane.
converts 10 percent of the energy in sunlight into stored energy in the chemical fuel,
Instead, the residual energyuantum noiseemained. his energy is part of the quantum description of natureou just can get it out,
where an additional amount of energy is required to strip electrons out of the material. For decades, scientists have debated the origin of the pseudogap
wee sending a lot more energy to that spot than the energy sent by the sun, he explains.
the mathematical framework developed by the team can compute energy-efficient codes that optimize the amount of energy that reaches the camera. e have a way of choosing the light rays we want to capture
noting that a robot sensors expend a relatively large amount of energy because they are always on. very watt matters in a space mission. arasimhan says depth cameras that can operate outdoors could be useful in automotive applications,
when the machine is shut down. 100 times less energy Modern memory chips have many requirements: They have to read
which requires 100 times less energy than present devices, has the potential to hit all the marks. his tantalum memory is based on two-terminal systems,
and switch from a metabolism that depends on glucose for most of its energy to a metabolism that derives most of its energy from fats.
and release energy, "team member Hongjie Dai explains.""Our latest unpublished data suggest that an aluminum battery can be recharged tens of thousands of times.
and energy density,"says Dai.""Otherwise, our battery has everything else you'd dream that a battery should have:
#Graphene device makes ultrafast light to energy conversion possible Converting light to electricity is one of the pillars of modern electronics, with the process essential for the operation of everything from solar cells and TV remote control receivers through to laser communications
they remain in that state and transfer their energy much more rapidly. As such constant laser pulse excitation of an area of graphene quickly results in superfast electron distribution within the material at constantly elevated electron temperatures.
This is because their operation is dependent upon overcoming of the binding electron energy inherent in the material for an incoming photon to dislodge an electron
the practical upshot of this research may be in the eventual production of novel types of ultrafast and extremely effective photodetectors and energy harvesting devices.
whether it was possible to reduce the energy cost of walking without the use of an external energy source.
not only exerts energy when pushing a person forward, but also when performing a clutch-like action to hold the Achilles tendon taut."
but still using substantial metabolic energy, "Collins explained.""This is the opposite of regenerative braking. It's as if every time you push on the brake pedal in your car,
This is accomplished through the use of a mechanical clutch that produces force without consuming any energy.
To offset the initial penalty that sees an increases in energy costs when heavy objects are placed on the legs,
"said professor"The efficiency of the tunneling process depends intimately on the degree of alignment of the molecule discrete energy levels with the electrode continuous spectrum.
At the Molecular Foundry we developed an approach to accurately compute energy-level alignment and tunneling probability in single-molecule junctions.
and energy flow at the nanoscale. What is exciting to me about this field is its multidisciplinary nature the need for both physics and chemistry and the strong beneficial coupling between experiment and theory.
The lithium-ion batteries in our phones, tablets and laptops store their energy-carrying ions inside negative electrodes made of graphite.
Other electrode materials could in theory do a far better job by packing in more energy
Lithium could store about 10 times more energy per unit weight than graphite, but it's prone to short-circuiting and catching fire;
like lithium or silicon, can store much more energy per unit weight than conventional graphite.
the new electrode can reportedly store over three times as much energy per unit mass (1. 2 Ah/g) at a normal charging rate.
more energy-dense and faster-charging than today's cells s
#Breakthrough photonic processor promises quantum computing leap Optical quantum computers promise to deliver processing performance exponentially faster and more powerful than today's digital electronic microprocessors.
In this way, the coils act as inductors for the application of energy and the production of magnetic fields and allow the body itself to act as a sort of waveguide for those fields.
we hope to significantly reduce power consumption as well as how frequently users need to recharge their devices."
"According to the researchers, beyond the benefits of ultra-low-power energy consumption, magnetic field human body communication may offer greater security than current wireless communication technologies.
Turning smog into diamonds would require too much energy, but the designer, who has created also solar bike paths in The netherlands,
the software indicates a single-axis tracker would produce about 20 percent more energy compared to the same size (Wdc) optimally oriented/tilted fixed PV system.
A tracking system will also produce more energy when a utility most wants it --when electric demands are at their peak.
Generally speaking, single-axis trackers produce about 20 percent more energy compared to fixed-mount systems just about anywhere in the U s. However,
the amount of annual energy produced in a cloudy location like Seattle is only about 60 percent of a sunny area like Albuquerque,
and a AC-DC-AC power converter from wind turbine maker Northern Power systems. e start by taking a generator
and Northern Power systems. It also includes Mark Levy, the VP of sales and business development,
who previously held similar positions at aerospace giant Northrop grumman and inverter maker Advanced Energy. Innovus is looking to maintain high fuel efficiency
According to an analysis using modeling tools from microgrid consulting firm Homer Energy, Innovus should be able to allow that wind capacity to be used for both electricity
but not without a certain amount of energy storage in the form of expensive lithium-ion batteries. he Innovus genset is going to allow us to achieve a very high renewable penetration without a very large battery,
the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of a Western Australian microgrid system using an Innovus genset comes to 25 cents per kilowatt-hour,
#Solarcity Has a New Plan to Make Distributed Energy an Integral Part of the Grid Solarcity has an idea for how to help California utilities tap their own customers as an integral part of their billion-dollar distribution grid plans:
In a white paper this week, Solarcity wrote that the structure could be a key lever for customer-owned distributed energy resources (DERS) to compete for billions of dollars of distribution grid projects being planned by the state big three utilities.
It would also put existing DERS in front of utility contracts and procurements for distributed energy, like Southern California Edison groundbreaking local capacity requirement (LCR) contracts last year. ur idea is to start with what there,
or hurt by distributed energy resources, and set goals for figuring out just how they can best be valued as grid assets.
Meanwhile, customer incentives are split up into energy efficiency programs, self-generation incentive program credits, energy storage mandates, demand response payments,
Energy prices are a blunt instrument when it comes to forcing behavior change. Even automated and aggregated DERS lack the always-on communications
Solarcity CTO Peter Rive suggested at Thursday meeting that utilities be allowed to earn returns on distributed energy resources as-a-service. ou could meet that load growth with standalone solar.
and identification capabilities to take measurements of particles produced from high-energy heavy ion collisions. The purpose of their experiment was to look for subtle differences in the ways protons
PSI is designed to complement the high-energy experiments conducted at CERN Large hadron collider (LHC). The facility world-class equipment includes an instrument known as The swiss Muon Source (S S)
The device allows you to use the residual energy that is produced during photosynthesis . What allows you to restore a dead battery in about 1. 5 hours.
but also store energy for the consumer devices r
#Innovative Wristify bracelet, which heats and cools Wearable technology and built-in sensors collect information about users to create an environment,
the goal of this working prototype to significantly reduce energy consumption in buildings by cooling the individuals, rather than the entire building l
which direct 80 percent of the energy consumed to producing heat, LEDS direct 80 percent of the energy consumed to producing light.
This is made possible by the fact that LEDS do not require a filament to be heated as incandescent and fluorescent bulbs do.
which mimics the way plants absorb energy from the sun, could make the energy-sapping job of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen relatively easy.
As well as potentially being able to produce hydrogen for fuel cells, the complex new material could also be used to turn carbon dioxide from the air into a carbon-based fuel,
"Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen is an energy-intensive process, which currently requires much more energy in from electricity than comes out in usable fuel.
To make the process more efficient, scientists use a photocatalyst-a material that absorbs light from the sun
as it can only absorb energy from ultraviolet light. The Reading-led team used supercomputer simulations to look at many different candidates as potential photocatalysts for fuel production reactions.
it could lead to highly-efficient conversion of solar energy to chemical energy-providing a clean, storable and transferrable source of energy. y
and to influence the amount of energy and carbon the plant dedicated to producing these natural compounds.
and flavanoids and to devote more of energy to doing this in fruit. Introducing both Atmyb12
and to influence the amount of energy and carbon the plant dedicated to producing these natural compounds.
and flavanoids and to devote more of energy to doing this in fruit. Introducing both Atmyb12
However for facilities in the developing world this can be a problem as the energy needed to power dehumidifiers
conserving energy so that it can automatically turn on when the humidity and temperature rise.""As long as the documents aren't accessed all day long,
the owners would not be able to afford the energy needed to operate it. Clarke promised to help.
Both weapons forgo conventional bullets for"directed energy"a focused beam of energy that heats up
"If you were on the receiving end of laser energy, you would have no idea where it was coming from or
The Compact Laser weapons System features four main parts that help it turn plain old energy into a deadly force:
wherein one coil of wire can transmit energy to another coil using magnetic fields.""Wireless neural stimulation in mice has been demonstrated many times before,
However, previous wireless brain-stimulating devices were limited by their power harvesting components. If these parts were small,
if the animals moved away from the spot where the energy was focused, which limited how far the animals could roam.
"Now the researchers have created implantable wirelessly powered brain-stimulating devices by essentially using the mouse's body to help collect energy."
The bodies of the mice are used not to absorb energy, the researchers said. Rather, the mouse bodies interact with surrounding magnetic fields, helping focus energy like a lens from the transmitter to the receiver in the implant.
About one-thousandth of the energy transmitted at the mice gets absorbed by the devices, an efficiency comparable to previous systems,
the researchers said.""We achieve these efficiencies, however, without limiting the area of coverage or requiring large head-mounted antennae,"Poon added.
it uses less energy.""However, carbon nanotubes grow in a disorderly manner, "resembling a bowl of spaghetti,
000 suns The latest in solar power comes to us from Swiss inventors working for Airlight Energy, Dsolar (a subsidiary of Airlight),
Even though that doesn't amount to a huge amount of energy (the 12kw of electricity is only enough to power a few homes, for instance),
They can use solar power or harvest energy from a beam of light. The patent does not mention batteries so these contacts have to constantly generate power.
The main energy cost in operating this kind of a sensor will be the high temperatures necessary to facilitate the chemical reactions for ensuring certain electrical response.
The main energy cost in operating this kind of a sensor will be the high temperatures necessary to facilitate the chemical reactions for ensuring certain electrical response.
for many years, researchers have explored other options that would provide greater energy storage for a given weight.
Lithium metal, for example, can store about 10 times as much energy per gram, but is extremely dangerous,
says Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering, who has a joint appointment in MIT Department of Materials science and engineering. e came up with the method serendipitously,
For applications that require a high power-and energy density battery, he says, t probably the best anode material available.
Plasmon energy expansion thermometry, inset, uses a beam of electrons to track where heat is produced
Monitoring the energy required to excite the plasmons enables measuring local variations in a sample density,
the researchers developed a new technique called plasmon energy expansion thermometry, or PEET. It enables measuring local temperature with 3-5 K precision and 5 nm spatial resolution.
because a jump between two tightly-packed stones requires less energy. A band gap is much the same;
and is a member of the Kavli Energy Nanosciences Institute at Berkeley (Kavli ENSI), is the corresponding author of a paper describing this research in Science.
but the coil continuously consumes energy. Another possibility is to polarize the ferromagnet, which means to align the magnetic structures in the material in parallel,
No energy is required for maintaining this magnetic field, but it is permanent and cannot easily be removed.
and consumption of energy. housands of charge-discharge cycles of lithium-ion batteries used in mobile phones, for instance,
"In contrast to other semiconductors like silicon or gallium arsenide, graphene can pick up light with a very large range of photon energies and convert it into electric signals.
thereby transferring the energy of the photons to the electrons in the graphene. These"hot electrons"increase the electrical resistance of the detector
"In contrast to other semiconductors like silicon or gallium arsenide, graphene can pick up light with a very large range of photon energies and convert it into electric signals.
thereby transferring the energy of the photons to the electrons in the graphene. These"hot electrons"increase the electrical resistance of the detector
and energy to perform. What are these functions? Well, you're performing some of them right now.
the resulting device would have to be loaded enormous with multitudes of transistors that would require far more energy."
however, many more memristors would be required to build more complex neural networks to do the same kinds of things we can do with barely any effort and energy,
STEM research was supported by the DOE Office of Science Basic energy Sciences. A portion of the research was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials sciences, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
using a laser as the energy source. The novelty of this study is that it shows that it is possible to use diamond nanocrystals as hypersensitive temperature sensors with a high spatial resolution-ranging from 10 to 100 nanometers-to monitor the amount of heat delivered to cancer cells s
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