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<title><![CDATA[Toyota invests in wireless car charging]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Diagram of how a device with WiTricity couples with its source to draw power from the source&amp;39's magnetic near field.(Credit:WiTricity)Charging your hybrid or electriccar may someday become as simple as pulling into the driveway.Toyota Motor has invested in and has signed an agreement with WiTricity to collaborate on a wireless automotive charger that doesn't need any point of contact to charge a car's battery, Toyota said yesterday.WiTricity has developed technology that could eventually enable a plug-in electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle to be charged by simply parking the vehicle in the vicinity of a car charger embedded with a special device.The Mass.-based company has already been developing the technology for consumer electronics like cell phones, laptops, game controllers, and TVs. Now with the help of Toyota, WiTricity hopes to bring its technology to cars like the Prius.Toyota &quot;believes that resonance wireless charging is suitable for automobiles and aims for its early practical use,&quot; the carmaker said in a statement.Unlike electromagnetic-induction wireless chargers that require a special mat or cases for things like cell phones to make contact with the electricity source, WiTricity's resonance wireless charging system does not require contact.WiTricity uses something called highly coupled magnetic resonance. The charger, directly connected to AC power, has a magnetic resonator that generates a magnetic near field. An embedded &quot;capture device&quot; in the item to be charged (in this case a car) then receives a transfer of electric power from that magnetic near field to which it's specifically attuned. The power via that magnetic near field can be delivered over distance, through obstacles like walls, and even to multiple devices simultaneously.The company says its akin to the resonance that takes place when an opera singer shatters a glass. A glass can absorb sound waves generated by the singer at a certain frequency, depending on the thickness, shape, and size of that glass. Under specific conditions that specific glass is attuned to the same frequency as the singer's voice and it absorbs the sound energy to the point of mechanical vibrations in the glass, sometimes even to the point of shattering. Other objects, even other glasses, in the vicinity, meanwhile, remained unaffected.&quot;WiTricity power sources and capture devices are specially designed magnetic resonators that efficiently transfer power over large distances via the magnetic near-field. These proprietary source and device designs and the electronic systems that control them support efficient energy transfer over distances that are many times the size of the sources/devices themselves,&quot; the company said in a statement.This method of wireless charging is also more efficient than electromagnetic-induction, according to WiTricity.Toyota is not the first high-profile automaker to express an interest in wireless charging. In January 2010, General Motors announced at fromCES that it was partnering with Powermat to offer wireless charging for the Chevy Volt interior that would allow consumers to charge items like cell phones by simply placing them on the dashboard. However, that technology is for charging electronic devices, and not the car itself.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ClearEdge touts home fuel cell over solar panels]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[If fuel cell vehicles can have celebrity owners, why not fuel cell-powered homesClearEdge Power said Jackie Autry, former Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim owner and widow of Gene Autry, is a customer of its residential fuel cell system, which supplies both electricity and hot water. (Credit:ClearEdge Power)Stationary fuel cell makers, including Bloom Energy and FuelCell Energy, focus mainly on business customers. But ClearEdge Power is targeting its box, about the size of a refrigerator, to both homes and small businesses. The company has sold about 200 units in California, with more than half of the fuel cells installed in 34 California businesses, according to a representative.The price for a five-kilowatt unit is $56,000 before installation. ClearEdge Power is initially marketing to consumers in California, who receive up to $17,500 per five-kilowatt unit in financial incentives from utility rebates and federal tax credits. Commercial customers can get as much as $27,500 in incentives, according to the company. For customers with big electricity bills, the fuel cell will cut monthly bills significantly, with Autry projected to get a pay back in between five to seven years, according to a report in the Desert Sun. At an event to show the fuel cells at Autry's house on Friday, company executives said they are working on a smaller, three-kilowatt unit and anticipate prices to go down with higher volume, according to the article.The fuel cell runs on natural gas, which is &quot;reformed&quot; and passed through a fuel cell, generating both electricity and heat. In addition to five kilowatts of electricity, one unit can generate 20,000 BTUs of thermal heat an hour at 150 degrees Fahrenheit. ClearEdge Power said residential fuel cells are a good alternative to solar panels for onsite power because they take less space, don't depend on good sun exposure, and, as a combined heat and power product, are efficient. Its fuel cell is 40 percent efficient in converting fuel into electricity and 50 percent efficient in heat, making it 90 percent efficient.More commercial customers, such as office buildings and supermarkets, are using fuel cells because they provide reliable power. Fuel cell companies are primarily marketing products in states which have incentives for cleaner sources of energy.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nvidia CEO: 'No disruption' on Sandy Bridge chip]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Nvidia's CEO said his company has seen no disruption in schedules to deliver Sandy Bridge-based products to customers. His comments came during Nvidia's earnings conference call yesterday. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang (Credit:Nvidia) In response to an analyst's question about the Sandy Bridge chipset delay, Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang said Nvidia has &quot;not experienced a disruption so far. [Intel] paused, but I think Intel is doing quite a good job of helping everyone cover,&quot; he added. Huang also addressed Intel's Sandy Bridge graphics silicon--which is built into the main Sandy Bridge processor--versus Nvidia's higher-octane chips. &quot;The PC industry still has basically two tiers: the basic PC and the premium PC,&quot; he said. The basic tier is made up of PCs using Intel's graphics function only, while the premium tier &quot;attaches&quot; an Nvidia chip to the system for better performance, he said. Nvidia's PC business in 2011 will be heavily dependent on attaching graphics chips to the Sandy Bridge processor, as Huang freely admits. &quot;Sandy Bridge is the best CPU that's been built for PC gamers in a long, long time,&quot; he said. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Libya shuts down Internet access as unrest intensifies]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Libya has now started shutting down its Internet and social networking sites that could help revolutionaries organize, multiple news outlets reported late Friday.Following the&amp;nbsp'lead of dictatorships that are limiting online access after the overthrow of Egypt&amp;'s government last week, Libya appears to be targeting sites including Facebook, Twitter, and even major Arabic news network Al-Jazeera, which confirmed it was no longer accessible in the country.After the success of organizing via the Internet in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt (pictured), it seems clear that long-time Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi&amp;nbsp'is taking no chances when it comes to the power of online connections to rally an already-restless populace.Reports the BBC:Col. Muammar Gaddafia4a4s government in Libya has taken a series of measures, including blocking Internet sites and shutting off electricity to try to quell rising unrest. Emerging reports suggest a mounting death toll from days of clashes between security forces and protesters.The AFP confirmed that report, adding:Access to social networking site Facebook was cut in the Libyan capital on Friday and access to the Internet was intermittent amid deadly anti-regime protests, computer users reported. From early evening it was impossible to access the popular Facebook site, and connections to other sites were either very slow or not possible, they said.Libyan ally and fellow Arabic state Bahrain also began restricting the ability to reach the Internet this week after weeks of civil unrest.Research conducted by Massachusetts-based Arbor Networks showed that&amp;nbsp'Internet backbone traffic dropped by as much as 20 percent beginning on Monday, although the country has only blocked access sporadically.Gaddafi&amp;nbsp'is now following through on a philosophy he outlined last week about sites like Facebook, describing them as &amp;''an imperialist plot&amp;'' and creating special task forces to look into any citizens using the Internet to organize opposition.Gaddafi&amp;nbsp'has controlled Libya since 1969 after staging a bloodless&amp;nbsp'coup d&amp;'tat against then-king Idris.Thus far, dozens of protesters have clashed with Libyan security forces, with a reported death toll of at least 40 people &amp;8212' much of which had been caught on videos widely distributed on YouTube, but then just as swiftly removed by pro-Gaddafi&amp;nbsp'factions.Unlike Egypt, however, the protesters in Libyan have been swift to create a potential shadow government should the existing regime tumble and had outlined their demands to both the local and the international press prior to the Internet shut-out.&amp;''We want a constitutional committee to adopt a new constitution for the country, legislative and presidential elections,&amp;'' Hadi Shalluf, opposition leader in exile and a judge at the International Criminal Court, told&amp;nbsp'Euronews.&amp;nbsp'&amp;''We want to try all of those whoa4a4ve committed crimes, to try all of those accused of corruption. We know, especially, that there is no trace of 1.5 trillion dollars of national revenue created since 1969. We want this money to go into the statea4a4s coffers.&amp;''Here&amp;'s a video of Tuesday&amp;'s major protest in Libyan city Benghazi:Previous Story: Engadget editor quits, slams the new a4AAOL waya4PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Companies: afp, Al Jazeera, Bbc, euronews, Facebook, Twitter, YouTubePeople: haddi shalluf, king idris, muammar Gaddafi          Companies: afp, Al Jazeera, Bbc, euronews, Facebook, Twitter, YouTubePeople: haddi shalluf, king idris, muammar GaddafiRiley McDermid is a contributing reporter to VentureBeat. She was previously the online editor at institutional investing and trading forum Markets Media, which she joined in 2008 from Dow Jones/MarketWatch in New York. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, the Associated Press, Portfolio Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Barrona4a4s. She has won awards from the American Society of Business Publishers and Editors, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Mississippi Press Association and the Atlanta Press Club, and was a finalist for the Pacemaker Prize for excellence in news reporting. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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