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- Photos: Solar festival as green as it gets
- Alternative energy and culture were on display last weekend at an off-the-grid learning center in Northern California.Madison Avenue advertisers and Silicon Valley venture capitalists may be pushing all things green into the mainstream these days, yet the countercultural roots of the sustainable-living movement are alive and thriving. More than 10,000...
- Tags: photograph, SolFest, Solar Living Institute, dome, alternative energy, photovoltaics, hydrogen, dump, Santa Cruz, wall, greenhouse, tent, automated teller machine, homeowner, Northern California, nonprofit, technique, festival, pump, showcase, pyramid, California, Sharp Corp.
- Image galleries 2007-08-23
- Photos: Wal-Mart meets alternative energy
- As the retailer gets ready for a big push into solar power, its experimental stores are already making use of sun, wind and old cooking oil.
- Tags: solar energy, retail company, alternative energy, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., wind
- Image galleries 2007-01-03
- Photos: With solar energy, it's silicon vs. CIGS
- As demand for alternative energy grows, so does the debate over what material is best for solar panels.
- Tags: alternative energy, solar energy, silicon
- Image galleries 2006-10-02
- Photos: Fueling around at the LA Auto Show
- Concept cars aren't just about speed and slick lines. Alternative energy sources matter, too.
- Tags: LA Auto Show, alternative energy, concept car
- Image galleries 2006-01-06
- Photos: Fueling around at the LA Auto Show
- Concept cars aren't just about speed and slick lines. Alternative energy sources matter, too.
- Tags: LA Auto Show, alternative energy, concept car
- Image galleries 2006-01-06
- Photos: Fueling around at the LA Auto Show
- Concept cars aren't just about speed and slick lines. Alternative energy sources matter, too.
- Tags: LA Auto Show, alternative energy, concept car
- Image galleries 2006-01-06
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- The cost of solar cells [video]
- At the Always On Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., a panel of solar energy executives debates whether or not silicon prices will fall as the industry matures. While they all think margins will narrow, they disagree on whether there will be an industry wide shakeout, or if the...
- Tags: Managing Director, Silicon Wafer, Solar Cell, Solar Energy, Video, Semiconductors, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- The cost of creating solar cells
- At the Always On Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., a panel of solar energy executives debates whether or not silicon prices will fall as the industry matures. While they all think margins will narrow, they disagree on whether there will be an industry wide shakeout, or if the...
- Tags: Managing Director, Silicon Wafer, Solar Cell, Solar Energy, Semiconductors, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, solar, energy, cells, silicon, polysilicon, silicon wafers, green, enviromental
- Videos 2008-12-04
- Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for
- Google is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth, its share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost, according to a new study by NETCompetition.org, a site committed to Net Neutrality "pro-competition Internet forum funded...
- Tags: Consumer, U.S., Google Inc., Bandwidth, Study, Broadband, Precursor LLC, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Nuclear fusion as future power source
- MIT researchers have used their Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor, in operation since 1993, to bring the promise of fusion as a future power source a bit closer to reality. As you probably know, fusion is the reaction that produces the sun's energy and it has an 'enormous potential for future...
- Tags: Plasma, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Fusion, Fusion Reactor, V, Construction, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- First cell towers, now solar panels? Expect squawking over "appropriate" sites
- Last year, there was a major fight in my modest-sized north New Jersey town over whether or not there should be a cellular tower built up at the high school. Are we destined to start hearing the same sort of flack about solar panels? Over the past...
- Tags: Solar Panel, Southern California Edison, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Live Webcast: Energy Efficient Data Centers - Lower Costs, Greener Outcomes
- The centerpiece of the industry's current focus on green IT is the corporate data center, the most visible energy hog in the IT landscape. Many companies are convinced they need to make their data center more efficient, but are unsure of which steps to pursue, and in what sequence. ...
- Tags: Data Center, Webcast, PC Connection Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-12-04
- In greentech as in the real world: you get big, you get enemies
- The folks at Ausra are getting a higher and higher profile in the realm of solar energy. And with that comes enemies. Your CEO poses at a big opening with California's high profile governor, and next thing you know: opposition. The Ausra company headquarters...
- Tags: California, Plant, Ausra, Ausra Company Headquarter, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT
- Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream ITDelusion DayJust saying it every year for the last decade does not make it any more real.If Linux desktop ever gets to 1% global usage, it will still be irrelevant.Who's deluded?It's already happening and will continue to proliferate.I can understand how some people...
- Tags: Desktops, open source, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Save water, save energy, save money, save manpower
- Click to see full image. Remotely directed irrigation controller. Courtesy HydroPoint. Moving water around uses a lot of energy in the United States and many other agricultural nations. A Petaluma, California, firm is selling digital control systems that can save both water and...
- Tags: Courtesy HydroPoint, Weathertrak, Paul Ciandrini, Caindrini, Roi/Tco, Cellular Phones, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Should you run your laptop on battery or charger power?
- Should you run your laptop on battery or charger power?It shouldn't be that hard to figure out.It really shouldn’t be that hard to figure out. Get a power meter and run three tests. First test run laptop at full settings while plugged in with no battery. ...
- Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, laptop computer, battery
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Should hospitals feature a rectory?
- Should hospitals feature a rectory?I've never understood......the logic behind forcing residents to work such hours. Do they really think people who are sleep-deprived can make life-or-death decisions reliably? By all means, let's see more lawsuits.Saying it's a way for the hospitals to save money at least makes some sense (in...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, hospital
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Should you run your laptop on battery or charger power?
- An interesting article in Slate by Jacob Leibenluft the other day asks a simple question: Do you save more energy keeping your laptop plugged in during use, or should you use your charger only after the battery runs out of juice? It's a complicated...
- Tags: Battery, AC Power, Laptop Computer, Engineering, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Nuclear technology to beat world hunger?
- The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA is known for its inspections of nuclear facilities around the world. But it's quite surprising to learn that the IAEA is collaborating with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO to apply nuclear science to food security. 'IAEA scientists use radiation...
- Tags: Food, International Atomic Energy Agency, Mutation Induction, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Is Sprint watching you?
- I'm not quite sure how this fits into the company's overall marketing scheme, but Sprint's got a Big Brother-esque Flash "widget" on its site that tracks, among other things, the latest headlines on Newsvine, what terms the Internet is buzzing about, how much energy the world is using, how many...
- Tags: Sprint Communications, Internet, Marketing Research, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
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