June 06, 2009 – Natural disasters like fires and earthquakes trigger an immediate response from the public. They rally quickly, offering shelter, money, food and clothing for the victims. Many also clear brush around their own homes, secure heavy furniture or purchase emergency

June 01, 2009 – Interested in extending your cell phone battery life by hours?  UC Irvine’s Team ZeroWatt, comprised of Payam Heydari, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Fred Tzeng and Vipul Jain, doctoral candidates in Heydari’

May 27, 2009 – The hot topic of clean energy drew nearly 200 people to the CALIT2 Auditorium at UC Irvine May 14. The crowd was attending the institute’s most recent Igniting Technology event featuring the latest advances in clean, green and renewable energy opportunities and te

May 12, 2009 – G.P. Li, director of the Irvine division of CALIT2, was named this week as one of 14 outstanding Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Leaders and Role Models by the Asian Business Association of Orange County. The awards, which single out local business l

April 30, 2009 – Ethanol could be the grand prize in the U.S.’s race for environmentally neutral energy independence. It derives from natural products like corn and sugar cane, and is high-octane, clean-burning and renewable. But there’s a hitch. It is expensive to manufacture a

April 30, 2009 – While scientists continue to make steady progress in the search for alternative energy sources, one immutable fact remains: it takes time to develop and broadly implement revolutionary technologies – 20 to 30 years, most likely. Meanwhile, coal continues to supp

April 30, 2009 – In 1839, Welsh physics professor Sir William Grove had a bright idea. He knew that water could be split into hydrogen and oxygen by sending an electric current through it, but he wondered: if the process were reversed, could hydrogen and oxygen produce electrici

April 30, 2009 – Splitting a uranium atom produces 10 million times more energy than combusting a carbon atom from coal. It also produces widespread dissent. Proponents of nuclear energy cite its “clean” footprint, long-term availability and efficiency. One ton of uranium produc

April 30, 2009 – Irvine, Calif., April 2009 — Developing sustainable energy technologies for the future is the mission at UCI’s Advanced Power and Energy Program (APEP). In addition to its fuel cell research, APEP scientists investigate combustion technologies, distributed

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