A 4-way LED substrate battle is shaping up amongst gallium nitride, sapphire, silicon and silicon carbide materials. The recent unstealthing of Soraa, added gallium nitride to active contender list with its GaN-on-GaN device. There are few dark horses as well, aluminium nitride, glass and germanium. Nitride Solutions of Wichita Kansas closed the oversubscribed $2.5 million round A in February for AlN substrates with ultraviolet market emphasis. The standing quo is sapphire; however the cost of producing LEDs out of synthetic gemstones has drawn in other contenders. Sapphire the defender: Lattice mismatch: 13%; Users are nearly everyone but Cree; Cons: Pricier for what you get; Pros: steady, divergence well researched and Bottom Line:  [...]

The new greener plane of Boeing is ready to take flight in March after the 787 Dreamliner was delivered on 20th February 2012 to All Nippon Airways, a Japanese carrier. The company claims that it consumes 5th less fuel, as compared to similarly sized aircrafts because of its carbon fiber design, making it travel more than 52% further than metal framed Boeing 767. All Nippon Airways placed the order for 50 of aircrafts in the year 2004, however constant relays have meant Boeing provided 787 around 3 years late. The aircraft will be undertaking especially chartered flight between Hong Kong and Narita on 26th October and 27 for marking its launch before going into service of domestic Haneda to Okayama route in November. Mr.  [...]

Cree today launched the LED lighting component, which will bring down prices drastically, however the firm has come to realize that only bringing down prices will not make LED lighting mainstream. It stated that sophisticated XT-E White LED offers class leading 16LPW at room temperature. Mr. Paul Scheidt, Product Marketing Manage said that boosting LEDs’ price performance leads to cost reduction of approximately 25% at retail level. He also stated that segment’s focus on purchase price is ill-advised. Rather than lighting firms should focus on set of features the LED lightings provide over other technologies, including longer lifetime, superior controls for dimming, lower energy consumption and more flexible designs. The  [...]

By producing the wind turbine for powering the fueling station and hydrogen production, a slightly hamlet in Long Island is positioning itself as a bellwether for carbon neutral transportation. The Hempstead N.Y. town on this island upright 121 foot high turbine in the month of December 2011 on Department of Waterways and Conservation of township land for taking benefits of potent Atlantic power and winds and natural and hydrogen gas fueling station, it founded in the year 2009. The turbine can produce up to 180 megawatts of power annually and showcases estimated hydrogen energy and fuel cost savings of $40,000 annually. For the time being, hydrogen powered car fleet comprises  [...]

Looking for a greener hotel for your next vacation, head to country or coast. While it is possible to find reasonable hotels in Los Angeles and other most significant cities, which work hard for reducing their carbon footprint, rural hotels are often leaps ahead. With freedom to build environmentally-sound properties and for sourcing food from local farms, the seven recommended rural eco hotels make outstanding effort for reducing the environmental impact. Following are the seven eco hotels around the globe: 1. Eco Hotel - Il Cantico della Natura, Perugia, Italy 2. Eco Hotel - Palmlea Farms Lodge & Bures, Vanua Levi, Fiji 3. Eco Hotel - Centre Ecologic Llemena, Girona, Spain 4.  [...]