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Transphorm tackles the grid's energy leakage problem  Summary:
The California startup has come up with an alternate materials
approach for power conversion technologies that would let them
run cooler, resulting in less waste.  Energy-efficiency habits
and technologies are already a recurring theme just one month
into 2012. There are all sorts of different challenges that a
technology startup could tackle in this regard, not the least of
which is the energy that is leaked throughout the electric grid
during the power conversion process. That's exactly what
California company Transphorm is trying to address with its
approach to power conversion technologies.  The Santa Barbara-
based company has come up with a new approach to the transistor;
its technologies use gallium nitride semiconductor materials
rather than the traditional sorts of silicon-based components
that are included in various power conversion circuits. I'm not
going to get into the ni