Tag: clean energy

UCI will host – and compete in – the California Challenge, which pits alternative-fuel race cars against each other Janet Wilson, UC Irvine (Update: UC Irvine’s natural-gas-powered Delta, aka Old Faithful, won the California Challenge Sunday evening on the race track at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013 and XPO.) On the bottom floor of UC Irvine’s Engineering Tower sits the secret weapon – maybe. Dubbed Gamma Prime, it looks like do-it-yourself shelving laid flat. But...

Researchers will explore use of marine conditions to produce clean energy Lori Brandt, UCIrvine News The W.M. Keck Foundation has granted $1 million to UC Irvine to build a campus laboratory in which researchers can explore the potential of using the deep ocean’s low-temperature and high-pressure conditions to generate carbon-free power from methane hydrates. Three-dimensional, ice-like structures with natural gas locked inside, methane hydrates are found under the Arctic permafrost...