A new report from Strategies Unlimited finds that the market for LED driver ICs is sizeable at $2 billion in 2010, buoyed by strong growth in LED backlights in mobile phones, TVs, and monitors. Innovations promise to help meet aggressive price and performance targets necessary to expand further the market for LED lighting, particularly in replacement bulbs. These innovations … [Read more...]
Research Center Receives Grant for Energy-Efficient Data Center
The National Science Foundation has awarded $525,000 to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to reduce the data center’s carbon footprint. NSIDC will modify its computing center to become one of the most energy-efficient data centers in the United States. The project includes a 25-kilowatt rooftop solar array and a more … [Read more...]
Electric Plane Wins $1.35 Million Prize
A Pennsylvania company has won a $1.35 million prize from NASA for developing a highly efficient airplane powered by electricity. Pipistrel-USA.com earned the top prize in the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google. The plane developed by Pipistrel doubled the fuel efficiency requirement for the competition, flying 200 miles in less than two hours while using less … [Read more...]
Global Energy Conservation Initiative for Wireless Industry
As wireless networking companies push to become more environmentally friendly, CommScope, Inc. has launched an energy conservation initiative that supports the industry’s global efforts in reducing power consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and operating costs. It is estimated that the operation of telecommunications networks is responsible for 0.5 percent of all carbon … [Read more...]
Solar-Powered Lasers Use Heat Sink for Cooling
A researcher in Uzbekistan has proposed a plan for solar-powered lasers using small parabolic mirrors about 3 feet in diameter, combined with new two-layer ceramic disks to produce laser light. When sunlight hits the ceramic material, it excites the electrons and causes them to emit laser light of a specific wavelength. To control the heat, the ceramic disk would be mounted … [Read more...]
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