Media Watch
Profs honored
Orange County Business Journal -
University of California, Irvine engineering Professor Michelle Khine and Provost, Executive Vice Chancellor, and Distinguished Professor Enrique Lavernia have been named 2016 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
How much rain did we get? Ask the iRain app, created at UC Irvine
Los Angeles Times -
With forecasters predicting the most powerful storm in a decade in Northern California this weekend — and more precipitation likely throughout the state in the coming days — UC Irvine engineers are hoping researchers, hydrologists and weather enthusiasts will make the most of their iRain mobile app.
2016 in review: UC Irvine researchers have an influential year
Daily Pilot -
From indoor labs to outdoor power plants, headline-grabbing scientific research could be found in every nook and cranny at UC Irvine in 2016.
Inching Ahead with Hyperloop
Los Angeles Magazine -
Elon Musk has steered clear of trying to realize his vision for tubular transport, but now his company SpaceX is hosting a pod-building competition.
How simple hydrogen could solve renewable energy's biggest problem
Popular Mechanics -
One promising solution is hydrogen storage, and the University of California, Irvine just launched the first such project in the United States, paving the way for other universities or municipalities to do the same.
Why the Automotive Future Will Be Dominated by Fuel Cells
IEEE Spectrum -
Scott Samuelsen, director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center, located at UC Irvine, [writes]: You’d have to be completely uninterested in cars or any other type of transportation to not recognize that automobiles are undergoing a major transition.
UCI tries solving this problem: We have sun and wind for power, but how do we store it?
Orange County Register -
An experiment at UC Irvine could offer a solution to a problem that’s holding back the widespread expansion of clean energy – how to store carbon-free power over long periods.
Australia’s Lesson for a Thirsty California
The New York Times -
On his first visit to Melbourne in 2009, Stanley Grant, a drought expert and professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Irvine, had a question for his taxi driver. “How’s the drought?” he asked. “It’s about 28 percent,” came the reply. Grant was puzzled. But shortly afterward, they drove past an electronic road sign announcing that the city’s reservoirs were indeed at just 28 percent of capacity.
Titanium golf club blamed for Orange County brush fire
ABC7 -
That isn't a surprise to James Earthman, a UC Irvine chemical engineering and materials science professor who did a study in 2014. ... "With stainless steel we never saw any sparks," Earthman said. "When we tested a titanium club, every time we hit a rock with a titanium there were a lot of sparks."
20-acre Mission Viejo brush fire was sparked by titanium golf club striking rock, officials say
CBS Los Angeles -
UC Irvine engineering professor James Earthman demonstrated in 2014 how quickly a swing can launch a 3,000-degree spark into the brush. … “It was when companies started making other clubs out of titanium that these fires stated to occur, in particular irons and hybrids made of titanium are particularly hazardous,” he said.