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- California greenlights two renewable energy development projects
- California greenlights two renewable energy development projectsRenewable - Free Energy for the World – ForeverGore and T. Bone Pickens have the wrong technology.http://www.prlog.org/10091881-renewable-free-energy-for-the-world-forever.html
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, renewable energy
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- California greenlights two renewable energy development projects
- Southern California Edison has received the thumbs-up from the California Public Utilities Commission to contract to buy clean energy from two new alternative energy projects. The first, the Granite Wind development in San Bernardino County, will see the construction of a 41-megawatt wind farm slated to come...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, California, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- The Green Enterprise: PG&E
- On the next installment of The Green Enterprise, ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das looks at how PG&E is working to deliver clean energy to its customers. Innovations include a unique solar installation at the company's headquarters, a hybrid-electric service truck, and emerging renewables from biogas to wave energy. Das also sits...
- Tags: PG&E Corp., Clean Technology, The Green Enterprise, Green, PG&E, Solar, San Francisco, renewable energy
- Videos 2008-03-10
- Brace yourself: here's some hopeful news
- Map showing Foula's location, courtesy of UK's Joint Nature Conservation Commission. First, there's a proposal from scientists that more gardening globally and more farming could help with the problem of carbon emissions and greenhouse gases. Planting beans to save life as we've known it....
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Plant, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
- Surf's up for PG&E and Finavera
- Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has extended its portfolio of renewable energy commitments into wave energy. As far as I'm aware, this represents the first commercial commitment to a wave project located in the United States. So far, most of the discernable wave energy projects have been in places like...
- Tags: Coast, Renewable Energy, PG&E Corp., Animation, Finavera, Pacific Gas & Electric, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-23
- TechCrunch holds its own Presidential primary
- TechCrunch is doing its part to illuminate the technology agendas of the Presidential candidates. Besides interviewing the candidates on their technology positions, TechCrunch is holding its own primary, where people can vote online from through January 18 for their candidates of choice. At the end of the "primary"...
- Tags: TechCrunch, Renewable Energy, Candidate, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- IBM: When it comes to energy use, consumers will pay more for greener options
- OK, Harry cornered the market today on politically laden postings. So, here I am with some suggestive stats from the data-minded folks at IBM, who have conducted a survey about energy among roughly 1,900 households in the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands....
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Netherlands, Survey, IBM Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- IBM's renewable energy usage revelation
- IBM's renewable energy usage revelationWhat a load of Rubbish...In the US unless you are generating your own power you have no idea where the power was produced. All this amounts to is a fancy "energy credit" scheme meant to save them tax money.As to other parts of the world,...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, renewable energy, renewable energy usage revelation, State AG, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-10
- American cars and light trucks may have to get more efficient
- It's ony been thirty years since mileage standards were raised on passenger vehicles in the U.S. but that's what Congress is now proposing to do. According to reports on a compromise energy bill, it appears the democtratic-led Congress will vote on a proposal for an average of 35 miles...
- Tags: U.S., Renewable Energy, U.S. Congress, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Google's latest ambition: Create renewable power that's cheaper than coal
- If you're a renewable energy expert, Google has a proposition for you. The company's latest part-philanthropic/part-capitalistic initiative from its Google.org arm aims for nothing less than displacing the coal industry's dominance as the primary supplier of electricity. (Roughly 40 percent of the world's supply.) ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Renewable Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Renewable amp-up: HP invests in solar, wind energy resources
- This entry's in the way of pointing out some news this morning from Hewlett-Packard. The tech giant disclosed today that it has inked deals with two renewable energy suppliers to considerably amp up its use of solar and wind power. Given Google's big green news today,...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Hewlett-Packard Co., Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Google's big green energy goal: A distraction?
- Google is announcing a new strategic initiative to develop electricity that's generated from renewable sources--wind, solar and geothermal systems--and cheaper than coal. This initiative, called the rather clunky Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal, will hire engineers, energy experts and "spend tens of millions on research and development...
- Tags: Google Inc., Renewable Energy, Coal, Larry Page, Telecom & Utilities, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Come 2010, will there be enough renewable energy to switch on your lights?
- Here's some irony for you. There's a new report out of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL that suggests demand for renewable energy will outpace supply by the year 2010. (The report carries the scintillating title of "A Preliminary Examination of the Supply and Demand Balance for Renewable Energy.") ...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, MWh, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Finavera's renewable energy funding cycle
- If I reported on every green tech financing announcement that crossed my inbox, I wouldn't have time to do anything else. But this one caught my eye because of where the funds are going: into wave energy and wind farm projects. So here's the deal. Renewable energy...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Green Technology, Financing, Farm, Finavera, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Notes from Britain: it isn't going to get better soon
- Two sour notes from the sceptered isle. First their scientists are telling us we should expect to lose up to 50% of our fellow creatures. They are not giving odds on whether homo not-so-sapiens is likely to be one of the goners. Studying the entire known fossil...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, IBM Lotus Notes, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- ECOtality seeks to become renewable energy powerhouse
- The acquisitions continue for ECOtality, which this morning revealed its intention to buy Innergy Power, a maker of ThinLine batteries and solar modules. Innergy, based in San Diego with a facility in Tijuana, Mexico, produces solar photovoltaic products, including ruggedized panel solar modules that can be used...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, ECOtality, Telecom & Utilities, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Greening the electric grid
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Davis, Calif., panel moderator Marc van den Berg, of Vantage Point Venture Partners, leads a discussion with technology executives on emerging technologies in the area of electrical systems, such as automating electrical processes, self-healing electrical grids and grids powered by renewable energy resources....
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Grid, Green
- Videos 2007-09-12
- In renewable energy, every little bit counts
- Putting my bleeding heart hat on to point out the efforts of a 13-year-old non-profit group called E+Co, which has started a Web site called EnergyCures.com.The site focuses on projects in emerging countries that make use of alternative energy in emerging nations. Here are some of the examples. Its ultimate...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Green, green again, but maybe not green enough
- Pond scum is a hot topic in the renewable energy world. Green and other colors algae can be used to produce a combustible oil. That would be renewable and green in the environmental sense. But the question remains: could it produce green profits putting algae farmers in...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Epcot: Land of eco-propaganda
- Rhetorical question for you: Are airboat tours really eco-friendly?I found myself wondering that here during my Florida vacay in the Everglades after our boat ran over I think our third coot one of those small black water birds that pops in and out of the water.Anyway, we went over to...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Renewable Energy, Exhibit, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
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