Good News Israel presents how Altair found a way to extend battery life; weeding with technology and much more.
By Michael Ordman
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Altair extends battery life on 4G devices
Israel’s Altair Semiconductor has developed a new chipset that will help the LTE batteries that power 4G devices to run with 10 times less power and half the cost of using current LTE technology. Current 4G devices include smart meters and alarms and many more are in development.
http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2015/3/3/israeli-companys-chipset-could-extend-battery-life-for-devices-using-4g-networks#.VPYL9vnF8z4=
Israeli university joins International energy consortium
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will be part of an international academic, research and corporate consortium to create a Ph.D. program on thermal energy storage (TES) technologies. TES heats or cools a storage medium so that the stored energy can be used later.
http://aabgu.org/bgu-joins-thermal-energy-storage-consortium/
Tech to repair the world
The first ever TOM (Tikkun Olam – repair the world) Maker event took place in Nazareth. It focused on helping people with special needs to integrate better in the community – find a job, to sit with friends in cafes, stroll the streets etc.
http://www.tomtlv.org/?page_id=780
Stop texting and start Gliding
Read more about the instant video messenger from Israel’s Glide and watch this demo of how easy and practical it is to use.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/stop-texting-and-start-gliding-why-glide-is-my-new-fave-app-of-2015/
Israeli technology for Norwegian desalination
Norwegian company, EnviroNor, is recruiting Israeli expertise to provide the water-processing technology necessary for its project to convert secondhand oil barges into floating desalination and wastewater treatment plants.
http://www.desalination.biz/news/news_story.asp?id=7960&title=Norwegian+desalination+barge+venture+seeks+Israeli+expertise+
Security for water
Jerusalem’s regional water & wastewater utility, Hagihon, has placed itself at the forefront of the cyber protection arena with a breakthrough project. Even if an employee does something unauthorized, like using an unrecognized USB flash drive, the system will send out an alert.
http://israelnewtech.com/2015/03/hagihon-launches-breakthrough-security-solution-for-protection-of-the-water-wastewater-utility/
Restoring Beer Sheva’s river
Untreated wastewater from Palestinian Arab towns has been polluting the Besor-Hebron-Be’er Sheva River for decades, thanks to international water laws. Now a 3-year project has been agreed between Israel, the PA and the Bedouin community to clean up the river.
http://arava.org/2015/03/restoration-of-the-besor-hebron-beer-sheva-river/
How Israel solved its water crisis
An excellent short article describing how, faced with severe drought and a full-blown water crisis, Israel made itself self-reliant by investing $4 billion between 2002 and 2010 to develop water technology that keeps its population and industries alive. And the innovations continue.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/turning-air-to-water-how/1726940.html
Korea learns Israeli pest control
South Korea’s Minister of Agriculture, Lee Dong-Phil visited Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu’s “BioBee” factory to learn about natural solutions to the global decrease in the wild bee population. BioBee is one of the global leaders in biological pest management, natural pollination and Medfly control.
http://www.israel21c.org/news/south-korea-likes-israeli-natural-pest-control/
UK-Israel science partnership is booming
Sir Mark Walport – chief scientific adviser to the British Government – says that Israel and the UK are scientific superpowers, working together on neuroscience, stem cells, nanoscience and water science. In 2015, hundreds of Israeli researchers will work in UK universities.
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/.premium-1.646203?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.223%2C
Weeding with technology
Israeli biotech Evogene is using its PointHit platform to analyze molecules in weeds and identify key plant macro-molecules responsible for essential biological processes in weeds. By targeting those processes, herbicides can be developed that will be more effective in killing weeds.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-agri-tech-firm-weeds-out-food-insecurity/
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