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With its pilot project, one Irvine company is turning emissions into electricity

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A company, Ener-Core, along with OC Waste and UCI have partnered to create a system to convert [methane] gas into an energy source. … Engineering students at UC Irvine will study the project’s results and work to improve technology. … UC Irvine received a $1.5 million grant from the California Energy Commission, and is coordinating subcontracts for the project.
Marketplace Tech

Dynamic camouflage will let soldiers hide like a squid

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In a lab at UC Irvine, chemical engineering professor Alon Gorodetsky and his team are making synthetic squid protein using bacteria. The lab is recreating a protein called Reflectin – it's what allows squid to change color and disappear into their surroundings by manipulating light – in the hopes that it could someday be used by the military as part of more effective camouflage.
PBS So Cal KOCE

NASA water scientist Jay Famiglietti

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Jay Famiglietti, senior water scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UC Irvine professor discusses the severity of California’s drought.

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