alternative energy

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UCI students win ‘Crazy Green Idea’ contest

Written on February 18, 2009.

UC Irvine students Kyle Good and Bryan Le win the $25,000 X PRIZE Foundation’s “What’s Your Crazy Green Idea?” video contest. Inventors and entrepreneurs worldwide could soon be hard at work trying to answer Kyle Good and Bryan Le’s challenge: build an environmentally friendly device to replace batteries in products ranging from personal electronic devices to cars. The UC Irvine students recently won the $25,000 X PRIZE Foundation’s “What’s Your Crazy Green Idea?”...

Kicking the oil habit

Written on January 1, 2009.

Jennifer Fitzenberger and Jason Mednick, University Communications Can the U.S. cure its addiction to oil? To help wean the country from its petroleum habit, UC Irvine researchers have been working to find viable sources of alternative energy – from deep in the earth to the sun. Here, researchers Scott Samuelsen, Reg Penner and Derek Dunn-Rankin discuss their work on transforming solar power, fuel cells and coal into low-cost energy sources for the future. SCOTT SAMUELSEN: FUELING THE...