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Color Kinetics Licenses Patents to TRUMPF

Color Kinetics Inc. (Nasdaq: CLRK) announced its first licensing agreement in the medical lighting field, and the first related specifically to white light applications. The global licensing agreement is with TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG, a $2 billion German manufacturing company. TRUMPF will license Color Kinetics’ patents to offer the iLED surgical light, which combines intelligent microprocessor control with LEDs to produce variable color temperatures of light. The license will also apply to any future intelligent LED-based medical lights that TRUMPF may develop. The FDA-approved iLED surgical light offers multiple benefits over conventional medical lighting systems. Its lack of radiated heat provides a more comfortable operating environment for doctors, while its variable color temperature allows more precise examination of human tissue by making contrasts more visible. iLED utilizes Color Kinetics’ patented inventions to produce LED-based white light that is adjustable from 3,500 – 5,000 Kelvin, or “warm” to “cool.” This capability has also proven helpful for doctors’ concentration and alertness during lengthy surgeries, when cooler light is preferred. The is the 12th licensing agreement for Color Kinetics in the first quarter alone. The company has signed contracts with lighting manufacturers such as Element Labs, Lamina Ceramics and UK-based Solar GB, […]

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Octillion Completes Private Placement

Octillion Corp. (OCTL.PK) has completed a $500,000 private placement. The Company sold 1,000,000 units, with each unit consisting of one common share and three share purchase warrants. In total, inclusive of the proceeds to be received from the exercise of the warrants, the Company will receive $2,150,000 from this funding. The proceeds will be used for working capital and general corporate purposes including, but not limited to, ongoing research and development work involving the integration of silicon nanoparticles onto glass surfaces. The nanosilicon photovoltaic solar cells are created through a unique electrochemical and ultrasound process that produces identically sized (1 to 4 nanometers in diameter) highly luminescent nanoparticles of silicon that provide varying wavelengths of photoluminescence with high quantum down conversion efficiency of short wavelengths (50% to 60%). The process of producing these silicon nanoparticles is supported by 10 issued US patents, 7 pending US patents, 2 issued foreign counterpart patents and 19 pending foreign counterpart patents. The Company’s research and development work is being conducted at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign pursuant to a Sponsored Research Agreement with UIUC. Octillion Corp is a technology incubator focused on the identification, acquisition, development and eventual commercialization of emerging technologies. Through […]

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Shell, Nuon Open First Dutch Offshore Wind Farm

Shell and Nuon invested over 200 million euros (US$270M) in the 108 MW wind park on the North Sea, which also serves as a demonstration project to gain technical knowledge and monitor the affects on marine life. Official data show that wind production contributes 2.37% of electricity in the Netherlands, up from 1.81% in 2005. Wind has been slow to take off in the country because of bureacracy. Licensing used to take five years, the longest in Europe. In 2004, the country lifted a ban on the construction of offshore wind farms in the North Sea. Shell, which sees wind energy as one of the promising renewable energy technologies, says it will continue to invest in wind farms.

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Humans Controlling Climate: Artifical Snow

Just as the Tibet meteorological station successfully created its first artifical snowfall in northern Tibet, proving its possible for human to change the weather, scientists warn that artificial snow could harm alpine water systems. Chinese scientists are concerned that rising temperatures on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau will melt glaciers, drying up major Chinese rivers and trigger drought, sandstorms and desertification. Scientists say this practice would sap water reserves by changing seasonal water cycles. Carmen de Jong said about the practice of ski resorts, “To make artificial snow all day long and during the whole season is just completely irresponsible for our climate, especially on such a large scale.” She is professor and research manager at the Mountain Institute at the University of Savoie in France. Water used for the snow comes from surface streams, artificial reservoirs and increasingly from ground reserves. De Jong said by keeping water in surface reservoirs instead of in the ground and by spraying it through the air to create the snow, about a third of the water evaporates, forming clouds that travel to other regions. Water levels in some areas have already dropped 70%. Some Alpine villages, which previously got most of their drinking water from […]

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NJ Utility Announces Plan to Surge Solar

Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G), a New Jersey utility, announced a $100 million initiative to spur 30MW of solar installations in the state over the coming two years. Under the plan, PSE&G will invest approximately $100 million over the next two years to help finance the installation of solar systems on homes, businesses and municipal buildings throughout its service area. The funding will provide a source of stable, secure capital to spur additional investment in solar energy. If approved by regulators, the initiative could begin by the end of this year and support 30 megawatts of solar power in the following two years, fulfilling about 50% of the RPS requirements in PSE&G’s service area for the years 2009 and 2010. The company says the initiative is designed to spur investment in solar power in New Jersey and help meet the aggressive renewable energy goals – 20% of the state’s energy needs supplied by renewables by 2020 – in the state’s Energy Master Plan. It is the first of a number of new plans to be detailed by the company this year as part of a long-term, comprehensive strategy to combat climate change. “This is an historic and groundbreaking initiative, […]

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Germany: EPURON Opens Large Scale PV System in Spain

EPURON GmbH, a company that develops and finances large-scale renewable energy projects, has completed a PV system in Spain with a peak output of 1.5 MW. SunTechnics coordinated construction and planning. The 300 sun-tracking systems (9000 Conergy modules) are located in the Murcia region, where solar levels are among the highest in Spain. The plant, which covers 10 hectares (15 football fields), will supply electricity for about 970 households. Website: [sorry this link is no longer available]     

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