The EcoVolt solution will allow Seismic Brewing Company to reuse water by completely removing contaminants and solids from the spent brewing water. 

The Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QWEC) and Qatar Environment and
Energy Research Institute (QEERI) have signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) to develop two pilot projects that could ‘radically
reduce the cost and energy use’ of desalination.

Qatar has joined efforts underway by other Middle Eastern nations such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE to bring down the energy consumption of desalination plants…

Rohde & Schwarz claims its TS8980 RF conformance test system has been used in the first validation for both LTE-Advanced uplink carrier aggregation (UL CA) and LTE-Advanced Pro uplink 64QAM (UL 64QAM). According to the test firm, this is an important step for extending the bandwidth and features of LTE mobile networks. Carrier aggregation and …

Rohde & Schwarz says LTE-Advanced uplinks ready for the network

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) in Guildford has completed its batch of Galileo satellite deliveries for Europe’s answer to GPS. The 22nd Galileo navigation payload, the last under Galileo Full Operational Capability (FOC) works orders one and two to OHB System in Bremen, the prime contractor. SSTL made the original GIOVE-A Galileo test satellite. Then it …

SSTL completes Galileo satellite deliveries

Antenova, the Hatfield antenna manufacturer, is announcing three brand new flexible printed circuit antennas to cover the 3G, 4G and LTE bands. They are the company’s first flexible antennas for 4G and LTE. Together, this set of three antennas offers options for all of the world’s 4G and LTE bands, as well as a choice …

Antenova goes for flexible antennas

Japan’s corporate elite are falling like flies. Sharp falls to Foxconn, now Mitsubishi Motors, Japan’s 6th biggest car-maker, falls to French-controlled Renault-Nissan. The Renault-Nissan thing is a curious relationship in which Renault has 43.4% of Nissan’s shares – all fully voting, while Nissan has 15% of Renault’s shares – all non-voting. This gives the French …

Mitsubishi Motors Falls To France

Infineon is shipping its CoolMOS C7 Gold 650 V in a TO-Leadless package. The C7 Gold CoolMOS technology comes with 4pin Kelvin Source capability and improved thermal properties of the TO-Leadless package. This enables a viable SMD solution for high current topologies such as Power Factor Correction (PFC) up to 3 kW. The Infineon C7 …

Infineon Cool

Eight years ago, EW wrote: “According to semiconductor folk-lore this should be a very good year for the industry.” |”2008 is a US presidential election year, and that’s (nearly) always been a good year for the chip business.” “And 2008 is an Olympic year, which has also (nearly) always been a good year for the …

Folk-Lore Flummoxed

St. Augustinus Memory Center hopes that tunable lighting from Osram can rebalance circadian rhythms.