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The Chinese capital of Beijing has been making a lot of noise of late with regards to fighting their well-publicized pollution levels. In the past week alone, Chinese state media outlet Xinhua has revealed that the country will ban coal by 2020 in six inner-city Beijing districts; that China will ban the sale and import of “high-ash and high-sulfur coal

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There are growing concerns that new cars, but especially all-electric vehicles, could be extremely vulnerable to hackers with cruel intentions. As the world’s foremost electric car maker, Tesla has a duty to customers past, present, and future to safeguard against would-be hackers. So how do you fight hackers? With hackers. Tesla made news earlier this year when it hired the

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Relying on gas-fired electricity generation “as a serious option” for reducing greenhouse emissions and cleaning up Australia’s power sector could cost up to 40 per cent more than a shift to renewables, and leave Australian households $500 a year worse off, a new report has found. The UNSW report found that rising and uncertain gas prices were likely to create

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World’s largest photovoltaic modules manufacturer Yingli Solar has now supplied a cumulative 10 GW of modules worldwide, the company announced recently. The achievement is remarkable when we consider the amount of potential electricity 10 GW of solar power modules can generate. According to the company, when fully operational, these modules can generate 12 billion kWh of electricity every year enough

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For mostly customers, before you are excited to start up a test, the 1st thing you are supposed to do is connect the tester to your computer, right? If you are new to our instruments, let’s take you a quick tour on how to hook up the machine with your computer. For BTS3000(COM port) users please refer to this article: Connect

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Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC2645, a quad-channel 12-bit/10-bit/8-bit pwm-to-voltage output digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with 10ppm/degree C reference. These parts convert pwm input signals to 12-bit accurate, stable, buffered voltage outputs in less than 8µs, eliminating the ripple and delay typically associated with analog filters. The LTC2645 provides a simple bolt-on solution to accurately set and adjust four voltages without

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CUI Inc. announced the expansion of their DIN rail dc-dc product line with the addition of over 90 high-wattage models ranging from 50- to 600-W. The VHK and VFK DIN families are isolated dc-dc converters packaged in a rugged aluminum case that feature a 4:1 input. With efficiencies as high as 92% and an integrated aluminum heat sink, the units

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The USB 3.0 Promoter Group today announced the completion of the USB Type-C specification that defines the next generation USB connector. The USB Type-C specification establishes a new cable and connector scheme tailored to fit mobile device product designs, yet robust enough for laptops and tablets. With this release, the specification has been transferred to the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF)

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Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today introduced a complete multiphase core voltage (Vcore) power management system solution for enterprise servers, storage and high-end desktop applications. Compliant with Intel’s VR12.5 and VR12 voltage regulation specifications, the TPS53661, TPS53641 and TPS53631 dc-dc controllers and CSD95372B and CSD95373B NexFET smart power stages are a state-of-the-art, digital multiphase solution to power the latest Intel® Xeon®

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A new analysis of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline says the project could be far worse for the world’s environment than estimated by the U.S. government. Washington has delayed a decision on approval of the proposed pipeline for further study of its environmental impact. Keystone XL would transport an estimated 820,000 barrels of oil sands each day from the province

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