Notable & Newsworthy

May 2014

Over a dozen Albany students graduate from cutting-edge 'NanoHigh' program

The SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) and the City School District of Albany (CSDA) recognized thirteen Albany High School students on Friday, May 30 during a graduation ceremony that marked their successful completion of the groundbreaking “NanoHigh” program, believed to be the first-of-its ki

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05/30/2014

Rechargeable fuels are at an early stage

Refillable liquid batteries may empower electric vehicles

A novel battery technology stores energy in what researchers are calling "rechargeable fuel"—electrodes in liquid form. The result can be either recharged like a conventional battery or replaced by pumping in new fuel like gasoline. The materials could theoretically allow an electric car to travel 50

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05/26/2014

Stanford and MIT researchers have developed a four-stage process that uses waste heat to charge a battery. First, an uncharged battery is heated by waste heat. Then, while the battery is still warm, a voltage is applied. When fully charged, the battery is allowed to cool, which increases the voltage. Once the battery has cooled, it actually delivers more electricity than was used to charge it.

Stanford & MIT scientists find novel way to harness waste heat

Vast amounts of excess heat are generated by industrial processes and by electric power plants. Researchers around the world have spent decades seeking ways to harness some of this wasted energy. Most such efforts have focused on thermoelectric devices – solid-state materials that can produce electricity from a

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05/26/2014

Pittsburgh public garden earns net zero energy certification

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has been awarded Net Zero Energy Building Certification under the Living Building Challenge™ (a program of the International Living Future Institute™) for the Center for Sustainable Landscapes (CSL), one of the greenest buildings on Earth. De

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05/22/2014

New battery technology launched

Power Japan Plus has launched a novel battery technology called the Ryden dual carbon battery, which offers energy density comparable to a lithium ion battery, but over a much longer functional lifetime with drastically improved safety and cradle-to-cradle sustainability. The Ryden battery makes use of a unique ch

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05/16/2014

Cloud-based home-management market set for rapid growth

Cloud-based home management systems that allow users to remotely control household features like lighting and air conditioning are set for rapid growth in the coming years, with the installed base set to rise by a factor of eight from 2013 to 2018. The global installed base of cloud-based home management services

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05/15/2014

Telit M2M tech to help turtles and tourism on Carolina coast

Telit Wireless Solutions, a provider of high-quality machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions, products and services, announced that Turtle Sense, a project designed to accurately predict when sea turtles hatch and emerge from their nests, will integrate Telit HE910 modules to communicate sensor data with the ultimate go

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05/15/2014

The Urban Harvest team from Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, developed a high-performance single-family attached townhome design that would fit well in any urban environment

NREL hosts race to zero-energy homes

The campus of the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) sprang to life on a late April weekend as 28 teams of university students and building industry experts converged at the lab for the Challenge Home Student Design Competition. During the inaugural competition, funded by the Ene

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05/14/2014

Car tech boot camp autoXLR8R 2014 launches in Spring Hill

Following an arduous eight-week selection process, seven emerging automotive technology companies will descend upon Spring Hill, Tenn., on May 19 to begin the autoXLR8R program, a 13-week entrepreneurial boot camp focused on bringing high-potential automotive technologies to market. The list of companies includes

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05/13/2014

Students from Slovak University of Technology Bratislava win EMEA Freescale Cup Challenge 2014

Students from Slovak University of Technology Bratislava won the final round of the EMEA Freescale Cup Challenge 2014, hosted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen. The Freescale Cup, sponsored by Freescale Semiconductor, is a global competition where student teams build, program a

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05/06/2014

Magnetic tape technology that achieves the highest areal recording density

Sony develops magnetic tape technology with record-breaking data density

In recent years, the rapid recovery of data systems such as databases and data servers following natural disasters, as well as secure management of information has become ever more important, and companies around the world are proceeding to build new data systems. In addition, the expansion of cloud services an

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05/05/2014

Remote refrigeration technology saving milk supplies in rural India

Lack of refrigeration in rural India is leading to $10 billion USD worth of fresh produce going to waste every year, including vast quantities of milk, which is a staple of the Indian diet. Lack of a reliable electricity supply is one of the biggest challenges, but an innovative thermal battery, developed by Pr

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05/02/2014

Novel double-stator switched-reluctance machine created by REVT researchers (PSDtv)

In this episode of PSDtv - Applications like aerospace, automotive and robotics require high torque to volume/weight ratio machines. Over a decade, the Permanent Magnet Machine has been considered to be the sole candidate, however, the limitation of the operational temperature, relatively high price, and unstable ove

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05/01/2014