The Detroit auto show looked more like the consumer electronics show this year. Electricity was in the air – or actually in the cars as electric vehicles were everywhere, at least in concept form. There appears to be only one thing impeding our transition from fossil fuels – the right energy storage technology.
Gasoline has [...]
Came across this article: Building a Better Battery:…in the Wall Street Journal blog. Jonathan Shieber outlines how the increased percentage of renewable energy sources brings about the need for more and larger batteries. The systems he talks about are huge battery installations like the 34MW system NKG Insulators Ltd. of Nagoya is deploying in conjunction [...]
I’m Paul Westbrook, the Sustainable Development Manager at Texas Instruments. I’m in International Facilities and work on making our TI sites (both new and existing) more resource efficient and sustainable. One of my favorite topics is energy efficiency. Efficiency isn’t “sexy” and doesn’t get much press, but it is the most cost effective and enviromentally [...]
Hi, I’m Bill Krenik, senior technologist in TI’s analog technology group. Now that wireless handsets are getting quite complex, I’m very interested in technologies that conserve handset power. Let’s face it, once the battery is dead, the handset moves from “high utility” device to “dead weight” you carry around. To deliver compelling images, video, graphics, [...]