Engineering
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a wearable patch that could provide personalized cooling and heating at home, work, or on the go. The soft, stretchy patch cools or warms a user's skin to ...
May 17, 2019
8
462
Energy & Green Tech
The benefits of self-driving cars will likely induce vehicle owners to drive more, and those extra miles could partially or completely offset the potential energy-saving benefits that automation may provide, according to ...
Apr 17, 2019
4
33
Energy & Green Tech
When deciding whether to participate in programs designed to conserve energy during peak hours, consumers appear to rely more on their intuition about how much money they're saving rather than on proof their bills are smaller, ...
Dec 03, 2018
0
27
Energy & Green Tech
The COMBI project recently concluded three years of research on the multiple impacts of energy efficiency. The consortium's findings further add to the already long list of benefits of a transition towards a more energy-efficient ...
Oct 17, 2018
0
0
Energy & Green Tech
Back in March, 3M ran a presentation about data, reminding us there was not going to be anything like a slowing down of data, and then posed the question, ok, so how do we swallow that and at the same time envision a sustainable ...
Aug 20, 2018 weblog
0
21
Energy & Green Tech
With society under pressure to meet growing energy needs and lower carbon emissions, Cambridge engineers have collaborated with industry to examine energy use and identify energy savings.
May 10, 2018
0
31
Energy & Green Tech
(Tech Xplore)—A pair of researchers with the Georgia Institute of Technology and UCLA has found that owners of large buildings who participate in voluntary energy performance certification programs really do see smaller ...
Mar 28, 2017 report
0
121
Engineering
For all the improvements in computer technology over the years, we still struggle to recreate the low-energy, elegant processing of the human brain. Now, researchers at Stanford University and Sandia National Laboratories ...
Feb 21, 2017
0
164
Energy & Green Tech
Each of the appliances in your home has its own personality. Not that your coffeemaker and refrigerator are dancing the night away à la Beauty and the Beast, but they do each have their own energy signature.
Oct 05, 2016
1
1
Energy & Green Tech
Girl Scouts and their parents reported increases in energy-saving behaviors, such as turning off power strips at night and washing clothes in cold water, after the children participated in an intervention program, according ...
Jul 11, 2016
0
9
Internet
Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new, open-source computer programming framework that could make the web significantly more energy efficient, allowing ...
Jun 16, 2016
0
10
