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The smartphone capital of the world has found an innovative and environmentally-friendly way to charge all those homegrown Samsungs and other mobile devices—Seoul, South Korea, is planning to install five charging stations powered by three mini-hydroelectric turbines embedded in the manmade Cheonggyecheon River that runs through the capital’s downtown. Seoul-based startup Enomad says the stations will be able to charge

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Did you know that melanin, the pigment in hair, is light sensitive and can be used as a conductor? Well, that’s what an 18 year old in Nepal recently discovered, and is now using human hair to replace silicon in solar panels. Since the price of hair is considerably cheaper than silicon, this enterprising youth may have just found a

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Mentor Graphics Corporation announced its new membership in the German-based European Centre for Power Electronics (ECPE), a European consortium focused on the research, education, technology transfer, and promotion of power electronics globally. Mentor Graphics is the only electronic design automation (EDA) company represented in this industry-driven research network, comprised of over 150 organizations (75 companies and 76 institutions). Mentor Graphics

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Lockheed Martin has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Sun Catalytix Corporation, complementing existing Lockheed Martin capabilities in the area of energy management and efficiency. The purchase includes certain intellectual property, contracts, facilities and the transfer of the company’s approximately 25 employees to Lockheed Martin. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed and are not

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Qualstar Corporation has expanded its ac-dc power supply offerings by adding high-efficiency medically-certified power supplies to its N2Power brand product portfolio. The ML Series of ac-dc power supplies range from 5 Watts to 1200 Watts of power and features universal input with brown out protection in a variety of output voltage models. The 1U/2U dimensions, high power density and efficient

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Mean Well Enterprise Co. Ltd. has expanded the HLG family with the new 600W HLG-600H LED power supplies. Like all of the current HLG series, these new models accept 90- to 305Vac universal input. The HLG-600H includes nine models with different nominal dc output voltages between 12V and 54V that LED lighting applications most frequently require. With an aluminum case

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It was announced in the middle of August that the UK had surpassed 5 GW worth of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity, just the sixth country to have done so. However, Michael Barker, a senior analyst for NPD Solarbuzz, has written in a blog post that such a milestone will soon mean very little as countries start passing 10 GW, 50

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Originally posted on GAS2 Now that the super efficient Volkswagen XL1 is in limited production, the company is prepared to tackle a new challenge by giving it two more seats and adding a pair of rear doors, reports AutoCar. The XL1′s mission is to go 100 kilometers on 1 liter of fuel, though it’s actual gas mileage rating is 256

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One of the primary obstacles to EV ownership in China has been a total lack of charging stations, which has spurred both private and public enterprises to resolve the problem. As China’s government is readying a $16 billion investment in EV charging stations, Tesla has announced plans to install 400 of its own charging stations in 120 Chinese cities. Bloomberg

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Vivint Solar announced last week that it’s putting forward a $200 million IPO to the Securities Exchange Commission to finance future growth. The Vivint Solar IPO is an interesting one for many reasons. Currently number two, behind SolarCity, in US solar PV installations, Vivint Solar’s IPO is being financially backed by some heavy hitters. Key underwriters include: Goldman Sachs, Merrill

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