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Building homes and hope
Earlier this month team members from MaxLite’s New Jersey headquarters volunteered to help build Habitat for Humanity homes for families in Newark, New Jersey.Led by Habitat for Humanity crew leaders and a site superintendent, employees of the energy efficient lighting manufacturer worked together to install drywall and complete other projects to help prepare a single family unit on South Orange Avenue to become home for a new Habitat for H...
Low carbon manufacturing enables sustainable development
As the disastrous implications of global warming become clearer, the worldwide community has begun corrective actions in earnest to create a low carbon economy. A major part of these efforts involve the propagation of low carbon manufacturing technologies and techniques, which not only reduce the effects of global warming but also offer tremendous cost benefits in the long term.
Technology for thermoplastically deformable electronics
At IMAPS 2015 this week, imec and CMST (imec’s associated lab at Ghent University) present a novel technology for thermoplastically deformable electronics which enables low-cost 2.5D free-form rigid electronic objects. The technology is under evaluation in Philips LED lamp carriers, a downlight luminaire and a omnidirectional lightsource, to demonstrate the potential of this technology in innovative lighting applications.
Secure airspace management for small drones is here
Near collisions with commercial aircraft and numerous other incidents involving Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), commonly known as drones, have become major problems for regulators and the emerging drone industry. Recent examples include drones disrupting the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, drones interfering with fire fighters in California and drones being used to smuggle contraband into U.S. prisons. All received widespread n...
Southampton aims to help achieve ‘low carbon cities’ in the UK & China
The University of Southampton is to lead a research project to help achieve low carbon cities in the UK and China. The project is one of four that will receive over £3m in funding from the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), with matched equivalent resources from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). The announcement comes in parallel with the State visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping ...
Innovate UK highlights game-changing aerospace technologies
At Aerodays 2015, Europe’s flagship event for research in aeronautics and air transport, 20th to 22nd October in London, Innovate UK is promoting the best of British aerospace innovation.
Li-ion battery anode made from Portobello mushrooms
Can portobello mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time? Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering think so. They have created a new type of Li-ion battery anode using portobello mushrooms, which are inexpensive, environmentally friendly and easy to produce.
Study finds break-even point for EVs
Under which conditions are EVs less expensive than diesel vehicles? What are the positive environmental effects? And what about their acceptance by users and reliability in practice? The RheinMobil project, co-ordinated by KIT, answers these questions in a study of a fleet test covering two and a half years of operation with 300,000 electrically driven kilometers. The results were presented at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt.
Electric motor future aligns with coil winding developments
Coil winding breakthroughs will help make electric cars cheaper to build, more efficient to operate and even better for the environment, says Konstantinos Laskaris, Chief Motor Designer, Tesla. As the market for plug-in electric cars expands globally, even as petrol prices remain low, increasing vehicle efficiency continues to be the top priority for manufacturers. Recent developments in regenerative braking, which captures a car’s kinetic ...
Energy Efficiency event kicks off in Minsk
Close to 1,200 global technology leaders and experts have come together in Minsk, Belarus, for a week-long meeting to focus on practical solutions to enable real energy efficiency improvements and to allow more countries, including developing countries to participate in global trade. These experts are participating in the IEC 79th General Meeting which is organised by the IEC National Committee of Belarus and Bellis, which hosts the secretariat, ...