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Transphorm introduces Gallium Nitride diode; >99% efficient DC-DC boost converter

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is showcasing a GaN-based, dc-to-dc boost converter running at more than 99% efficiency. Energy loss that occurs during power conversion is equivalent to the daily output of 318 coal plants, and costs the US economy $40 billion per year. At APEC, startup Transphorm Inc. —Primit Parikh, President of Transphorm. Earlier post.)

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Osage Bio Energy: Winter Barley Ethanol as Advanced Biofuel for RFS-2

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Osage Bio Energy (OBE) is a Virginia-based company that will use regional grain, primarily winter barley, to produce ethanol and high value co-products for East Coast markets via a fairly conventional pathway of converting starch to sugar, followed by fermentation.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

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Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. And Long Island, NY has converted a city bus to a plug in hybrid with 40 miles of all-electric range.

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Researchers Demonstrate Liquid-Tin Anode SOFC Operating on Biodiesel

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The LTA-SOFC was able to convert the biodiesel to electricity at commercially viable power densities, i.e., greater than 100 mW cm -2. Electricity is produced by converting tin to tin oxide at the anode. Liquid Tin Anode Fuel Cell Direct Coal Power Generation (10 th Annual SECA Workshop). Bentley, J.

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