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Caltech Announces 2014 Resonate Awards Winners

May 20, 2014 by Leon Walker

Caltech’s Resnick Sustainability Institute has announced the winners of the 2014 Resonate Awards, which aim to promote innovative solutions to some of the hardest problems in alternative energy. The work being recognized is in several key areas, including: development of safe and cost effective energy storage; the most sophisticated mathematics for ... Read more »

Renewables Pose Threat to Outdated Grid

December 4, 2013 by Leon Walker

Scientists and engineers nationwide are still figuring out how best to protect the grid from something usually seen as benign and helpful: renewable energy, reports the Los Angeles Times. As the US’s network of solar panels, wind turbines and geothermal grows ever bigger, these scientists are growing increasingly worried about ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: RoHS Testing, Tim Hortons’ First LEED

April 25, 2013June 30, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Canadian restaurant chain Tim Hortons has opened its first LEED-certified restaurant, in Hamilton, Ontario. Builders reused the site’s old parking surface as granular fill, and diverted 99 percent of construction waste from landfill. The company hopes to have 30 LEED-certified buildings by the end of 2016, and says the location will ... Read more »

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