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Taiwan Reboots Its Solar-Power Fishponds

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A number of other countries have been experimenting with aquavoltaics, including China , Chile , Bangladesh , and Norway , extending the concept to large solar arrays floating on rivers and bays. Taiwan is striving to massively expand renewable generation to sustain its semiconductor fabs, and solar is expected to play a large role.

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How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

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“When I was learning data structures, I began to see things from a different viewpoint—how to make things efficient,” says Lu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a university faculty scholar at Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering , in West Lafayette, Ind.

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Novel molecular orbital interaction stabilizes cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries

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An international team led by scientists from the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials at the University of Wollongong in Australia has verified that the introduction of novel molecular orbital interactions can improve the structural stability of cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries. —Dr Liang.

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Nanostructures Bring Gains for Phase Change Memory

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Engineers in the United States and Taiwan say they have demonstrated a promising new twist on nonvolatile memory that’s small enough, miserly when it comes to energy, and works at low enough voltage that it could boost the abilities of future processors. But efforts to fix this have come with trade-offs, such as drifting resistance values.

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ETH Zürich Developing Pneumatic Hybrid Engine; Approaches Hybrid-Electric Performance at Lower Cost

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ETH Zürich says that the engine concept has interested several major motor companies and automotive suppliers. 2009) Realizing a concept for high efficiency and excellent driveability: The downsized and supercharged hybrid pneumatic engine. Dönitz et al. SAE 2009-01-1326 , not yet published). Amir Fazeli et al.

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Celebrating the Life of University of Texas Professor Mo-Shing Chen

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The IEEE Fellow was a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than 40 years. He founded the university’s Energy Systems Research Center in 1968 and served as its director until he retired in 2003. The attendees came from more than 750 universities and companies worldwide. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D.

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Researchers propose low-temperature SOFC unit for reducing NOx and oxidizing HCs in lean-burn engine exhaust

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Concept of the SOFC emissions control system. A team from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, reports that a low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) emissions control system for lean-burn engines can simultaneously reduce the high concentrations of NO x and oxidize hydrocarbon (HC) emissions. Credit: ACS, Huang et al.

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