Electricity demand fluctuates each day, and consumers who want to unplug during peak times to save money and help the environment now have a new tool at their disposal. Chai Energy, a partner of the UCLA Luskin Center for ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 28, 2017
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Michael Siminovitch, director of the California Lighting Technology Center at UC Davis, wasn't looking for enlightenment when he wandered into a Buddhist temple in Thailand a few years ago. He was touring Thailand as a distinguished ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 6, 2017
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Emissions of methane—a potent climate-warming gas—may be roughly twice as high as officially estimated for the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of the emissions come from biological sources, such as landfills, but natural ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2017
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The California Energy Commission has passed energy-efficiency standards for computers and monitors in an effort to reduce power costs, becoming the first state in the nation to adopt such rules.
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 21, 2016
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All those cars on California's famously gridlocked highways could be doing more than just using energy - they could be producing it.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 25, 2016
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A research team led by the University of California, Berkeley's Center for the Built Environment (CBE) will develop ways to integrate commercially available "smart" ceiling fans and communicating thermostats, and to evaluate ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 7, 2016
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The largest solar power plant of its type in the world—once promoted as a turning point in green energy—isn't producing as much energy as planned.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 17, 2014
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A solar-energy company has dropped a proposal to build a 75-story tower in California that uses a new kind of technology that can cause some birds to ignite in midair.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 8, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering have shown that a vehicle navigation tool they created can cut electric vehicle energy use up to 51 percent.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 9, 2014
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In the middle of the night, when most Americans are sound asleep, their lights and appliances off, a power hog is wide awake and running at nearly full throttle: the boxes that operate their cable or satellite television ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 17, 2014
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