There are many museums lining the mall in Washington D.C. These museums focus on history. For the past two weeks a museum of the future was placed on the mall as the Solar Decathlon competition took place. It was a village like no other – twenty student designed and built solar homes all striving to [...]
I’m here at the Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. If you ask any student to point to the silicon content in their house they will immediately point to their solar array. Very few will point to the dozens of inverters, power supplies, TV’s, computers, ipods, horizontal axis washers, LED lights, or other items that are [...]
TI is on-site today as a returning sponsor at the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington DC. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Solar Decathlon brings together 20 university teams from across the globe in a competition to design, build and operate the most energy-efficient and attractive solar-powered home. Tomorrow marks the first official [...]
Once just a glimmer in our eyes, the 2009 Department of Energy Solar Decathlon (SD09) competition is now upon us. In October, twenty university teams from around the world will bring their high-tech houses to the National Mall in Washington DC to show off their skills in super-energy-efficient home design, as well as their ability [...]
Texas Instruments and the 2009 Solar Decathlon
Texas Instruments has long been committed to driving energy innovation. In October, TI will continue its involvement in building a greener future as a returning sponsor of the 2009 Solar Decathlon. This event brings together 20 university teams from across the globe in a competition to design, build and [...]
Today TI announced that it is sponsoring this year’s Solar Decathlon, to be held in Washington D.C. October 9-18. Similarly to 2007, 20 university teams are competing in the 2009 event and I’m sure each and every team is hacking their way through home construction, product acquisition and a myriad of design changes as problems [...]
This week at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Silicon Valley, CA, TI will showcase the latest in green/energy efficient engineering with informative sessions on energy harvesting and LED lighting.
“Batteryless Energy Harvesting in Embedded System Design (ESC-305)” – Adrian Valenzuela, Product Marketing Engineer
“A Single Controller-based LED Lighting System (ESC-465)” – Hrishikesh Nene, C2000 Applications [...]
Texas Instruments is stepping up its involvement with the Solar Decathlon by sponsoring the University of Illinois team for the 2009 competition.
As a bit of background, the Solar Decathlon is a DOE-sponsored, bi-annual contest to design, build and operate the most attractive, energy efficient homes, which will be on display on the Mall in Washington [...]