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Oceanic Thermal Energy Conversion – Large Scale Energy Harvesting

 
With energy usage top of mind, who hasn’t been exposed to commercials stating “the energy produced buy the sun in one minute equals the amount used by the entire population of the planet for one year,” or a similar, hard to define claim.  The truth is there’s an incredible amount of energy out there for [...]

Rest in peace or under solar panels?

Now here’s an efficient use of space…Without diving into the respect and traditions discussion, you have to commend the ingenuity of one of Europe’s latest solar installations.  Undoubtedly we will see more solar and small wind systems popping up in unconventional places in the coming years, all part of move to locate these power generation [...]

Rumblings about energy harvesting escalate

Hi, I’m Adrian Valenzuela, MSP430 engineer at TI.  I’m responsible for many of our ultra low power microcontroller products and tools and I’m excited about the discussion going on around energy harvesting.  Energy harvesting at a macro level has been around for a while - just take a look at the solar panels across the country [...]