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8 February 2010
In January this year, Katie Spotz aged 22 from the USA embarked on a 2500 mile journey from Dakar in Senegal on the west coast of Africa to Cayenne in the French Guiana. Spotz will cross the Atlantic...
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Development of energy efficient computer chips
Press Release | 8 Feb 2010 | Netherlands/Belgium/United States
At yesterday's International Solid State Circuit Conference, Imec and Holst Centre report an analog-signal processor ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) - in short ASP - that reduces the overall power consumption of an ambulatory heart act...
Perpetua Power Source Technologies, Inc. (Perpetua) has announced that it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research contract from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and demonstrate a wearable thermoelectric generator solutio...
The Federal Bicycle Commuter Act was signed into law on October 3, 2008. This legislation allows employers to give employees who commute by bike a monthly tax free stipend of up $20. This benefit is modeled after the federal vanpool and transit commu...
Power-generating rubber films developed by Princeton University engineers could harness natural body movements such as breathing and walking to power pacemakers, mobile phones and other electronic devices. The material, composed of ceramic nanoribb...
Cymbet Corporation has announced that it has successfully completed the final phase of its third round of private equity financing, raising $31 million. The Company will use proceeds from this financing round to expand EnerChip sales and marketing in...
A group of four students in an engineering sciences class at Harvard University have come up with the idea for sOccket - the energy harvesting soccer ball. SOccket is a fun, portable energy-harvesting power source in the form of a soccer ball. The cr...
Energy harvesting is being widely considered and used for electric vehicles. The burgeoning electric vehicle EV industry cannot be understood by simply looking at cars. The complete market value is, and will remain, about double the market for cars. ...
Amerigon designs, develops and markets products based on efficient thermoelectric device technologies, and Amerigon subsidiary, BSST is advancing the use of thermoelectrics in the area of power generation. Used in reverse, thermoelectric (TE) can gen...
The ICARE Project is a non-profit undertaking whose aim is to take a tour around the world, starting in May 2010 and ending in October 2011, to learn about CO2 compensation initiatives in foreign countries. Over the course of a year, two reporters w...