This Week in PowerBites: Solar-Roasted Coffee, The Art of Sensing, SiC Module Mania
- A look at how a coffee roasting cut its electric bills by 80+% illustrates how the compelling economics of industrial-scale solar systems are greening many company's bottom lines — and their carbon footprints.
- Analysis of 30 years of data reveals why investments in energy conservation and renewable energy continue to grow, despite recent controversies.
- The ways that current sensing, power conversion, and innovations in integrated power modules are accelerating the adoption of silicon-carbide (SiC) technology.
Technology Features
ProductBites
This edition of ProductBites focuses on current sensing, power conversion, and innovations in integrated power modules that are accelerating the adoption of SiC technology.
Module Mania
Advanced thermal packaging, higher levels of integration, and growing economies of scale are making it easier than ever for engineers to take advantage of SiC technologies’ extreme efficiency and performance.
Power Conversion
Application-specific power-conversion devices deliver higher efficiencies, smaller footprints, lower BOM costs, and shorter development times.
The Art of Sensing
These advanced components support the higher voltages, currents, and levels of precision required by next-gen automotive power systems.
Automotive Power Play
Advanced devices that help in the design of smarter, more efficient, and cost-effective EVs and ICE vehicles.
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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.