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CITRIS researchers are developing engines that use 15 percent less fuel than gas engines and emit only 30 percent of the NOx of a typical diesel engine. Thus, they appear to combine the best of both engines. Except for one problem: temperature variations.
Currently, CITRIS has awarded approximately $2 million inseed grants on all four campuses. These projects will help fulfillthe CITRIS mission of creating societal-based research through collaborationsacross the CITRIS campuses.
A perspective by Professor Daniel Kammen on the energy crisis and the role of the C-GRACE meeting with CITRIS and the Copenhagen Climate Council.
CITRIS projects at Berkeley and Santa Cruz using cell phones as a
healthcare platform are among the projects supported by a recent Microsoft Research initiative.
Led by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California,
Santa Cruz, and using innovative collars made at CITRIS, the project will shed light on the movement, range, physiology, and
predatory habits of pumas.
A research project between UC Berkeley and Nokia tests how well cell phone GPS can gauge
upcoming traffic and is featured online here.
Six projects were awarded a total of $30K at this year's CITRIS Big Ideas contest, with the top two prizes going to healthcare-related issues.
A group that wants to make a cheap fuel cell that can efficiently convert hydrocarbon fuel into
electricity won this year's CET Cleantech Innovation Contest.
Ethan Miller's group has come up with a new approach, called Pergamum, which uses hard
disk drives to provide energy-efficient, cost-effective storage.
The April newsletter features stories about technology for social impact: CellScope (cell phone + microscope) and enabling eye care in India using cheap, reliable Wi-Fi.
