What if an entire isolated community received all of its power needs from the sun? A remote island off of Africa is about to find out – and the project could be a game changer for solar.
“Ninety-nine percent of solar projects have solar panels dumping [all of their power] into the grid,” Darren Hammell told VentureBeat. He’s co-founder and Chief Strategic Officer of Princeton Power Systems, which, along with GE Power & Water and MAECI Solar, has been chosen by the national government of Equatorial Guinea to build a five-megawatt solar microgrid for the island.
In lab space across from a yoga studio in an office park in Natick, Massachusetts, Adam Powell holds up a brilliant white ceramic tube that he says is the key to making the production of many widely used metals significantly cheaper and less polluting.
A new report today cites “industry sources” saying that Apple is working on a health wearable that it will release next October.
The story, from Nikkei Asian Review, says the new watch-like wearable will run on iOS 8, and will be equipped with a centralized function to manage users’ biometric information via smartphones.
VentureBeat’s own source confirms the story, saying that the new device will likely use a curved organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touchscreen. Our source says the display design is “sleek” and “aerodynamic”, and bests the design of Samsung’s most recent health wearable, the Gear Fit.
In April, Amazon announced it would begin testing a new connected hardware device called the “Amazon Dash,” which lets you order groceries from AmazonFresh by either scanning a product barcode or speaking a product name into the device. But the Dash is only available in select markets where Prime Fresh operates, and customers have to be invited to participate in the device’s private trial.
If you can’t get in on the fun, there’s a similar product already available on the market as it turns out: the Hiku.
Solar power needs to get cheaper to compete with fossil fuels.
The world’s most efficient solar cells are twice as efficient as the ones people put on their roofs, but hardly anyone uses them because the semiconductor materials they’re made of are so expensive. That could be about to change.
Ashkelon’s Barzilai Hospital, in southern Israel, is one of the first in the world to use the Biotronik Etrinsa HF-T, a new “connected” pacemaker that allows physicians to gather potentially lifesaving data about a patient’s cardiac condition anytime and anywhere. The device is one of the world’s first to use a cellular phone network to communicate with a server and upload data about pacemaker behavior and impact, sending text messages to doctors for analysis and interpretation.
The European Union’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 19.2% compared to 1990s levels, according to the European Environment Agency.
EU emissions dropped 1.3% in 2012, reaching their lowest level ever recorded, according to data reported to the United Nations by the EEA. The bloc's greenhouse gas output decreased by 1082 megatonnes since 1990, more than the combined emissions of Italy and United Kingdom in 2012.
ULMAko Drainatzeko kanalak 2014ko Munduko Futbol Kopako egoitzetako batean.
Beira-Rio estadioa Brasilgo futbol estadio bat da, Porto Alegre herrian dagoena, Guaiba ibaiaren kostaldean. Internacional da bertako taldea; 58.306 ikusleentzako edukiera du. Laster Brasilen jokatuko den 2014ko Munduko Futbol Kopako egoitzetako bat izango da.
La operadora intenta trasladar a España el sistema de Reino Unido, donde se ajudicó la gestión de millones de instalaciones, y abre negociaciones con las eléctricas.
