A former Sony TV factory near Pittsburgh is coming to life again after lying idle for four years. Whirring robotic arms have started to assemble a new kind of battery that could make the grid more efficient and let villages run on solar power around the clock.
Aquion, the startup that developed the battery, has finished installing its first commercial-scale production line at the factory, and is sending out batteries for customers to evaluate. It recently raised $55 million of venture capital funding from investors including Bill Gates. The money will help it ramp up to full-speed production by this spring.
Aerospace giant Boeing and its research partners in the Middle East said Wednesday they would start field trials after recording progress in making biofuel from desert plants fed with seawater.
The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium, affiliated with the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, will plant two hectares (five hectares) of the saltwater-tolerant plants called halophytes in the region's sandy soil and the plants will be fed with waste water from a fish and shrimp farm.
Kebony’s revolutionary, sustainable alternative to tropical hardwood has been highlighted by World Economic Forum as a company that has the potential to transform business and society.
Kebony’s revolutionary, sustainable alternative to tropical hardwood has been highlighted as a company that has the potential to transform business and society.
This year, the World Economic Forum is pleased to present 36 leading start-ups selected as Technology Pioneers 2014. The class is particularly diverse, providing new solutions to a number of challenges, including technologies for a greener and more sustainable planet; the deployment of precise and targeted therapies in the treatment of cancer and other diseases; the rethinking and redesign of how we deliver education; a robotics renaissance; the creation of a more personalized Internet experience; and the initiation of a “sharing” economy, to name a few.
GE (NYSE: GE) and the NFL announced today 16 winners in the first stage of the $20 million “Head Health Challenge.” Each of the winners will receive a $300,000 award to advance their work to speed diagnosis and improve treatment for mild traumatic brain injury. GE and the NFL will provide mentorship, access to GE researchers and industry thought leaders with the opportunity for up to six of the awardees to win an additional $500,000 award in 2015.
When Sharoda Paul finished a postdoctoral fellowship last year at the Palo Alto Research Center, she did what most of her peers do — considered a job at a big Silicon Valley company, in her case, Google. But instead, Ms. Paul, a 31-year-old expert in social computing, went to work for General Electric.
Hitachi Ltd et Hino Motors Ltd ont conçu conjointement des bus possédant des batteries rechargeables et pouvant être utilisés comme source d'énergie en cas de catastrophe. Ces bus peuvent fournir de l'électricité 10 heures par jours durant une semaine à un gymnase (servant habituellement de refuge). Afin de pouvoir circuler plus facilement après un séisme, seuls des bus de taille intermédiaire ont été développés.
Honda a annoncé avoir développé un nouveau système de freinage automatique pouvant stopper un véhicules à 60km/h afin d'empêcher une collision avec un piéton. Le nouveau système d'Honda a recours à un radar et une caméra de très haute précision détectant les piétons plus rapidement que les systèmes conventionnels. De plus, cette technologie permettrait d'éviter l'accident même à 60km/h, soit à une vitesse plus élevée qu'auparavant. Honda souhaite installer ce système sur son modèle de luxe 'Legend' dès cette année mais n'a communiqué aucun prix.
Honda a annoncé avoir développé un chargeur pour voitures électriques afin de promouvoir l'utilisation des véhicules hybrides et électriques. Celui-ci peut être installé sur un mur et dans des parkings existants, ce qui permet de réduire le travail nécessaire à l'installation par rapport aux modèles existants. Il est notamment équipé de carte d'authentification, de système de verrouillage afin d'éviter les erreurs, etc.
A la hora de administrar un tratamiento de quimioterapia hay una diferencia muy sutil entre la dosis que cura y la que puede causar problemas al paciente.
