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Imagine doing business in a place where electricity could cut off at any time. When the power goes off, workers sit idle, commerce stalls and food spoils. Today, the only alternative in many emerging economies is to use commercial refrigerators with diesel...
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Promethean Power Systems is developing a solar-powered refrigeration system for commercial cold-storage applications in off-grid and partially electrified areas of developing countries. The system uses clean, quiet, solid-state technologies such as thermoelectric...
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Infineon and Auto Electronics sponsored the Rev Up Fuel Efficiency Design Contest, where engineers took the "green challenge" to design a solution using Infineon products that enables or improves energy efficiency for automotive applications...
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The Automotive X-Prize (AXP) will be awarded to the team that produces a 100 mile-per-gallon (equivalent) vehicle, develops a feasible business plan to produce 10,000 units, and wins a series of stage races against similar vehicles. The Cornell Automotive...
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In Part 2 of our interview with Chak Man Yeung from NI Week, "Sunny" digs deeper into the University of Texas' solar "raycer". Featuring the National Instruments CompactRIO real-time programmable automation controller, the Samsung...
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The University of Texas Solar Vehicles Team is a student organization sponsored by the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Under the guidance of Professor Gary Hallock, students raise funds, design, build, test, and race...
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Plextronics, Inc. is an international technology company that specializes in printed solar, lighting and other electronics. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, the company's focus is on organic solar cell and OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) lighting...
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Mahindra & Mahindra, one of the leading auto manufacturers in the Indian market, and FEV, a leading developer of advanced powertrain and vehicle technologies, developed a diesel-electric hybrid version of the Scorpio SUV. FEV contributed its expertise...
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Raser Technologies, Inc., in conjunction with its systems integration partner, FEV, unveiled components of a new advanced extended-range plug-in series hybrid electric vehicle powertrain and integrated drive system designed for full-size SUVs and pickup...
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How can cars be designed to be more attractive, more environmentally friendly, more efficient, and safer? These are questions that Evonik Industries has answers to. The car of the future doesn’t yet fly—but its lightweight construction owes something...
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At Carnegie Mellon University, Professor Elias Towe's group pursues research in basic optical and quantum phenomena in materials for applications in novel photonic devices that enable a new generation of information processing systems for communication...
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Cyclone’s Green Revolution Engine represents true “thinking outside the box.” This is because it is not a new variation of the internal combustion engine, but rather, a highly advanced External Combustion Engine. Unlike IC engines, the Cyclone engine...
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The Cyclone Waste Heat Engine (WHE) is a self-starting engine that operates in a low pressure, low temperature range. This feature allows the engine to run on waste heat emanating from an external source, such as the exhaust from an internal (or external...
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As Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs), Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV), and Electric Vehicles (EV) continue to gain acceptance as a viable alternative to gasoline-powered vehicles, it is clear that HEVs will need light, compact, high-powered, high...
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Current research in the area of biofuels includes a major R&D program with Solix Biofuels and the Engines and Energy Conversion Lab to develop photobioreactors for the mass production of algae as a biodiesel feedstock. Designing and building a Photobioreactor...