 I teamed up with my colleagues at Engineering TV to do a video segment on the Mission R electric superbike with its 100-kW motor. Watch it here.
Send your energy efficiency news to us at eeteditor@penton.com -- Leland Teschler, Editor
 Tired of programming and reprogramming your home thermostat? Then you are like 89% of programmable thermostat owners who never program their thermostat, according to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. Perhaps what you need is a Nest Learning Thermostat which learns from your behaviors, preferences and surroundings to create a custom heating and cooling schedule. READ MORE
 The energy harvesting arena has become more interesting with the advent of an energy management chip designed to work with a harvesting device alone, without the use of a companion battery. The new chip is designed to step-up or boost the output voltage of widely used energy generators such as thermoelectric generators, electromagnetic coils, single photovoltaic cells, and infrared emitters. The output voltages of such devices are generally in the tens-of-millivolts range. READ MORE
You can add nanocomposites to the list of materials that will turn heat into electricity. Developed by MIT's Dr. Gang Chen and his research team, the work has implications that could potentially be quite broad. The team's solar thermoelectric generators (STEGs) have hit a peak efficiency of 4.6% -- a figure seven or eight times higher than the best flat-panel STEG values reported previously. READ MORE
Engineers at the University of Washington and Kettering University in Michigan have figured out a way to cut the energy used by the open-face coolers that are widely used in grocery stores.They say widespread implementation of their techniques across the U.S. would save roughly $100 million in electricity costs each year. READ MORE
CFL ballast control IC
Improving energy efficiency in industrial pneumatics
Whitepaper: High isolation optocoupler target HEV apps
IC for LED control
Heavily doped glass substrates have been the key to getting high output efficiency out of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). But a group of researchers at the University of Toronto think they have figured out how to get OLEDs fabricated on plastic to yield efficiencies equivalent to those of their glass-based counterparts. READ MORE
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