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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 23, 2009 – A gathering last week added important bedrock to CALIT2’s foundation of collaboration. The brainstorming-and-dinner session held at the new University Medical Center brought together 28 participants from CALIT2 with a comparable number from the School of Medicin

April 21, 2009 – A software package developed by CALIT2 researchers that can transform laptops and PDAs into teleconferencing or telemedicine apparatuses has a new name. The interactive platform initially known as “HBox” is now “Telios” – Telepresence Interactive Operating Syste

April 17, 2009 – UC Irvine’s National Fuel Cell Research Center, a CALIT2 partner center,  will join forces with New York-based Plug Power to test the viability of the latest generation of fuel cell technology for providing electricity and heat to homes.  The $3.4 million partne

April 16, 2009 – Hiperwall Inc., the software company spun off from CALIT2 research technology, will be featured in a report next month on World Business & Technology TV, a Northern California cable television station. Hiperwall, Inc. licenses custom software that allows use

April 10, 2009 – A “smart grid” that could efficiently and reliably provide electricity to power-hungry Southern California moved one step closer to reality this week. One hundred fifty researchers, faculty and students from industry, government and academia convened at CALIT2 a

April 09, 2009 – When it was first introduced, wireless communication required a supporting infrastructure – a cell tower, a router connected to a wired network or an access point on a local area network. The introduction of MANETs (Mobile Ad hoc NETworks) eliminated that constr

April 08, 2009 – UCI researchers with a wide range of wireless technology interests gathered recently for a CALIT2 brainstorming workshop. In five-minute lightening presentations, more than a dozen faculty members shared their expertise and current research. Their projects run t

March 30, 2009 – SURF-IT, the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology, is now accepting applications from UCI undergraduate students who want to gain hands-on experience in IT-related research. Fifteen multidisciplinary summer research projects are ava