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California Climate – From the Capitol
Are California’s existing renewable energy policies strong enough to take on the demands of hydrogen production without straining the grid? The question lies at the center of the debate around clean hydrogen in the state; it emerged today in an Assembly committee hearing on building a hydrogen economy. … “You can operate mostly in the middle of the day, and as a result, have way lower carbon emissions than the average grid,” Jack Brouwer, director of University of California, Irvine’s Clean Energy Institute, there representing ARCHES, [the state’s hydrogen hub] said on a committee panel.
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Can the US catch up in the green hydrogen economy?
Hydrogen to power fuel cells will also augment battery-powered vehicles in decarbonizing the transportation sector, particularly for vehicles requiring long range and fast refueling times such as long-haul trucks, Jack Brouwer, a professor at the University of California at Irvine and associate director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC), said in a Monday webinar introducing the report. Read More
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California: Prosperity Through Technology
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering's sixth annual industry research symposium brings together internationally acknowledged faculty and academic visionaries from UC Irvine and other universities, key industry leaders, legislators, and national and state agency heads to discuss current research activities, trends, and developments on selected topics. This year's theme, “Disruptive Technologies for the 21st Century: Engineering the Lifesciences,” brings to the forefront technological advances that will transform the lifesciences.
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Communications Office
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Combining These 2 Supplements Can Slow Down Alzheimer’s Disease, Researchers Find
“We saw in mouse neurons that GTP levels were lower in old age. This led us to try to raise GTP levels with an energy precursor molecule that’s very safe, nicotinamide [vitamin B3],” said study author Gregory J. Brewer, a professor of biomedical engineering at UC Irvine, in a statement to PsyPost. Read More
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Cephalopods’ invisibility powers could someday be ours, now that we know how to control them
Now scientists at UC Irvine have finally figured out the structure of reflectins at a molecular level and are able to manipulate them — almost like magic.
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California’s ‘smart’ energy future glows on the horizon—but how to get there?
Gene Tsudik, a UC Irvine professor and one of the participants, is a computer scientist specializing in privacy and security. … “We are surrounded by smart devices all over the place. Of course, they violate your privacy.” … One takeaway for Scott Samuelsen, director of UCI’s Advanced Power and Energy Program, which ran the project, is that while the adoption of smart home devices is growing fast, regulation and consumer protections that should accompany them are not keeping pace. “The market is out of control with respect to regulation (of devices),” Samuelsen said.
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CEE Department Faculty
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Can You Outsource Motivation?
“As physicians, we know that many of the most common diseases could be prevented—or even reversed—through sustained behavior change.