This Week in PowerBites: Air Force Goes Electric, Agrivoltaics, Evolving Components
- A recent AirForce exercise explored how STOL-capable electric aircraft can provide rapid freight, transport, and medevac services to remote conflicts that are difficult or impossible to reach with today’s fixed-wing and rotary aircraft
- An international agrivoltaics conference will bring farmers and green power advocates together to explore the best practices, business models, and technologies that are enabling wind and solar systems to coexist with, and even enhance, many agricultural operations.
- Our latest ProductBites section features a dev kit for solar cars, an intelligent multichannel LED driver, and new ways to spin your motorized designs smarter, simpler, and more efficiently.
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These compact capacitors and innovative inductors help boost your design’s power density and reliability.
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About the Author
Lee Goldberg
Contributing Editor
Lee Goldberg is a self-identified “Recovering Engineer,” Maker/Hacker, Green-Tech Maven, Aviator, Gadfly, and Geek Dad. He spent the first 18 years of his career helping design microprocessors, embedded systems, renewable energy applications, and the occasional interplanetary spacecraft. After trading his ‘scope and soldering iron for a keyboard and a second career as a tech journalist, he’s spent the next two decades at several print and online engineering publications.
Lee’s current focus is power electronics, especially the technologies involved with energy efficiency, energy management, and renewable energy. This dovetails with his coverage of sustainable technologies and various environmental and social issues within the engineering community that he began in 1996. Lee also covers 3D printers, open-source hardware, and other Maker/Hacker technologies.
Lee holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Thomas Edison College, and participated in a colloquium on technology, society, and the environment at Goddard College’s Institute for Social Ecology. His book, “Green Electronics/Green Bottom Line - A Commonsense Guide To Environmentally Responsible Engineering and Management,” was published by Newnes Press.
Lee, his wife Catherine, and his daughter Anwyn currently reside in the outskirts of Princeton N.J., where they masquerade as a typical suburban family.
Lee also writes the regular PowerBites series.