Wake Forest University just adopted a new “building dashboard” that allows anyone on campus to track and monitor energy use. With the technology, anyone can look at a building’s energy consumption by monitoring its electricity, water, heating, and cooling systems. It is […]
Even with a struggling economy, high unemployment and thousands protesting American greed, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is optimistic. “I’m very optimistic that we have good choices,” he said to the crowd at Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University Thursday night. Kennedy cheered […]
A project supervised by CEES Board Member Dr. Abdou Lachgar just won a $145,665 grant from the Biofuels Center of North Carolina. The grant will help Wake’s Terrafinity project develop a method that facilitates the conversion of waste into biodiesel fuel. This project and the […]
By Office of Communications and External Relations A new polymer-based solar-thermal device is the first to generate power from both heat and visible sunlight – an advance that could shave the cost of heating a home by as much as 40 percent. Geothermal add-ons for […]
A solid electrolyte known as LiPON, was developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is currently used in microbatteries. At Wake Forest University, we have been studying computer models of related crystals which are composed of mobile Li ions in a framework composed of phosphorus, oxygen, […]
