Project highlights collaboration between utility companies and two coastal communities to help ensure future sustainability.

 

Researchers at the National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, UK, have developed a new graphene oxide membrane for desalination.

Deployment will increase available bandwidth, reduce overall network O&M costs and improve reliability of the overall field network.

 

TaKaDu signs first US contract with Knoxville Utilities Board.

 

Traco Power has announced DIN rail mount power supplies that are up to 94.5% efficient. Called the TIB family, they are aimed at industrial environments and control cabinets and available in 80, 120, 240 or 480W power ranges, with 24Vdc outputs (adjustable from 23.5 to 28V). With less heat to shift, the company has made …

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Daimler has thrown in its lot with Bosch in the driverless car quest. It might be because Mercedes’ self-driving car programme isn’t going too well and Mercedes is owned by Daimler. Test data reveals that Mercedes’s driverless cars required human intervention every two miles. Uber’s record is worse – driverless cars required human intervention every …

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Sales of optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors increased 2% in 2016 to reach a seventh consecutive record-high level of $67.9 billion, says IC Insights. Individual growth rates in the three market segments were all over the map: Optoelectronics sales fell 3.6% in 2016, primarily because of the first decline in lamp devices in …

Read full article: O-S-D segment to return to normal growth levels

Tridonic is behind an led-based ceiling that can mimic the way natural daylight changes. Installed in a bank entrance hall, at Bahnhofplatz in Bern, the 36 large-format (90x90cm) led coffer ceiling panels will start at warm white in the morning, moving on to neutral white and cold white at midday and finishing with warm white …

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Swindon Silicon Systems is to create chips to implement novel battery management technology from Edinburgh’s Dukosi. The companies expect that the resulting product will be available in the second half of 2018. “We are thrilled to have entered this relationship with a global automotive and industrial partner supplier like Swindon Silicon Systems, who will provide …

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2016 was the year of Li-ion batteries’ silver jubilee, a coming of age that has not been hassle-free, as Samsung’s Firegate showed us, writes Dr Lorenzo Grande, technology analyst at market research firm IDTechEx. This year might mark the first significant switch to new materials in the electrolyte compartment, with both large and small companies …

Read full article: Solid-state electrolytes and the quest for a safer battery