Posts Tagged: sustainability

U of T Engineers Crack Solar Challenge

In a paper published in Nature Photonics, U of T Engineering researchers report a new solar cell that may pave the way to inexpensive coatings that efficiently convert the sun’s rays to electricity. The U of T Engineers, led by…

Five Engineering Researchers Awarded Connaught Grants

Winners of the newly revamped Connaught New Researcher Awards, fostering excellence in research and innovation by assistant professors, include five researchers from the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. They are: Professor Jason Anderson (ECE, MASc 9T7, PhD 0T5) – A…

Stop Using Toilets as Garbage Cans, Canadians Urged

Canadians say they appreciate the vast amount of fresh water that exists in this country, but are quite willing to waste much of it by unnecessarily disposing of things through toilets, according to results of a new study. A survey —…

Pedal Really Means Power at Hart House

The prototype sustainable power plant that University of Toronto Professor Olivier Trescases (ECE) is demonstrating doesn’t look like much. A simple black-box battery connected by clips to red and yellow wires that go to a decades-old electricity meter, then by…
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