Tag Archives: process
The Evolution of Etch Microcircuits
Etch: A very short word for a hugely important technology, without which there would be no microchips. Etch is the process by which images of circuit features printed on a silicon wafer are engraved into the films below. Put another way, etch makes circuits real. Last week, I blogged about how our latest innovations in [...]
Can Solar Help The UAE Desalinate Water?
Countries under the Gulf Cooperation Council may soon have to look to the sun for help in powering desalination plants. Current systems require huge amounts of energy, are expensive and rather inefficient. It’s likely that they won’t last for more than 30 years which is why it’s being proposed that Gulf nations take help from [...]
Real-time, In Process Chemical Analysis for Clean Energy Manufacturing
Tomorrow I will present a seminar to Applied Materials employees inSanta Clara California discussing a new ‘Green Chemical Analysis’technology. Chemical analysis is a part of our everyday lives,from identifying the components of consumer goods to monitoring material manufacturing processes. Classical chemical analysis of solidmaterials generally requires that a sample be dissolved in an acidsolution. The [...]
A Look at Sundrop Solar’s Gasification Process
While most biomass-to-biofuels systems burnfeedstocks as the first step in biofuel production, Sundrop usesconcentrated solar energy to gasify the feedstocks into syngas that isthen made into advanced biofuels. According to the company’s website,the very high temperatures of CSP create efficiencies in the process: At the center of the Sundrop Fuels process is our proprietary SurroundsunTM technology, a solar-thermal biomass [...]
Is Solar a Product or a Process?
Last week I wrote an article looking at the ways the semiconductor industry and solar industry are similar and where they diverge. At the heart of the issue is a debate over whether solar companiesprimarily compete by out-doing each other with distinctively designedproducts or whether success lay in developing a superior manufacturingprocess. In other words, [...]
NREL Develops New Air Conditioning Process That Saves 90% of Energy
The National Renewable Energy Lab has developed a new kind of air conditioning process that can help save about 90 percent energy.Since a major percentage of the energy consumed by an average householdis used up in cooling, 90 percent savings will definitely be huge. These researchers have invented a new process that uses membranes,evaporative cooling [...]
Trends In Alternative Energy Process Equipment
Applied Materials (AMAT), the largestproducer of microchip process equipment to companies such as Intel,which has a major foothole in several U.S. cities including the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area, predicted the future trend of a solar energy boom in 2006, leveraged its resources and know-how with respect toanalogous flat-panel display processing, and developed a product line [...]
Evolution Solar completes process of forming Bermuda subsidiary
Management of Evolution Solar Corp. announced that the legal andadministrative process of forming its new Bermuda subsidiary wascompleted. EVSO announced on February 8th that the Company haddecided to form the new subsidiary, a step necessary for meetingcontractual eligibility under Bermuda law. The move is a deliberate step forward to aggressively pursue business opportunities that will [...]
In Focus: DIY Consumption
There is a revolution underway that is transforming consumption. If the twentieth century was marked by hyper-consumption the twenty-first century will be marked by collaborative consumption. This new form of consumption is being facilitated by a wide range of technological innovations. Social media is a great example of technologies that contribute to the new model [...]