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- Attention renewable energy developers: Grant fund seeks applications
- Money down a rat holeHow many years will 7 Trillion take to pay off?
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, renewable energy
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Attention renewable energy developers: Grant fund seeks applications
- Transportation and logistics company seeks grant applications for alternative energy projects. by Heather Clancy
- Tags: Developer, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Supply Chain, Transportation, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- A Burst of Clean-Energy: How 3D Visualization Can Help to Achieve Commercial Objectives
- Explaining how product works, how it could be used, and where it differs from existing technology, is the most difficult part and a decisive element in reaching commercial objectives. A 3D animation can be the solution, since it easily visualizes and explains the use and purpose of something that is...
- Tags: 3D, Renewable Energy, PlusAnimations, Telecom & Utilities
- White papers 2009-11-01
- Burger King cooking up renewable energy
- Reality and mythSo you are going to take a diesel powered truck that pulls 80,000 pounds and make it electric.Get real...Nothing more than Al Gore and Obama spending Trillions of dollars to crash the economy.Reality and realitySo you are going to take a diesel powered locomotive that pulls 6,000 tons...
- Tags: Get Real, Burger King Corp., renewable energy
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- Burger King cooking up renewable energy
- Drive up to Burger King, stop your car, generate electricity. That's the plan being tested right now at the Burger King in Hillside, New Jersey. The tech being used is called MotionPowerâ„¢ Kinetic Energy Harvesting System. It is made by New Energy Technologies, Inc. They used...
- Tags: Vehicle, Renewable Energy, Energy, Burger King Corp., MotionPower, New Energy, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Southern California Edison's new mega contract for solar megawatts
- You can add another 170,000 homes to the solar capacity that Southern California Edison hopes to support in Southern California. The utility has signed a deal with First Solar to build out two projects in Riverside and San Bernardino counties with a generation capacity of 550 megawatts...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, First Solar Inc., San Bernardino, KWh, mW, Southern California Edison, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Have you been slimed? Video interview explores potential of algae as renewable energy source
- This is not that new.. they have been working for a few years on this.It is in interesting concept though. Humans using lower life forms to do all the work for them.. i like.I am not sure why they are producing crude though.. if they are targetting it as...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, video, Video Interview, renewable energy
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Have you been slimed? Video interview explores potential of algae as renewable energy source
- The SmartPlanet sister blog site just posted an interview with Harrison Dillon, the CTO of Solazyme, which is experimenting with algae as a renewable oil source. Hear what Dillon has to say about algae's potential as a gasoline or household cleanser alternative. The video can be found at this link....
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Blog, Video, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Head 'em up. Move 'em out. Keep those clunkers rollin'
- Let's spend more money, says Congress. They may not see their way to helping Americans get universal health care, but auto care? Big support in Congress for auto care. The House just approved another $2 billion for the "cash for clunkers" program, that started out with half that,...
- Tags: Car, Renewable Energy, U.S. Congress, Telecom & Utilities, Sales Strategy, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Intel commits $10M to five clean-tech companies
- Intel Capital is sinking new and additional investment funds into five technology companies, most of which have some stake in the energy monitoring or monitoring marketplace. Here's a summary of who snagged the money: CPower, a New York company that provides energy management and demand response...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Monitoring, Clean Technology, Intel Corp., Intel Capital, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Rural energy grant deadline approaches: Aids renewable energy technology investments
- I'm not sure how many farmers and ranchers read these posts, but certainly I can claim some rural business owners among my readers. So, if you are in a rural area of the United States AND you are a small business with fewer than 15 employees, you have until July...
- Tags: Turbine, Renewable Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-03
- Renewable energy is only a patch--MSFT research head
- Stop the release of CO2 says Craig Mundie. Any way and every way. Doesn't Craig understand that it's always about making a profit and you do that by selling more energy, even renewable...not by cutting down on CO2. That's generally a costly public service like clean water...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide, MSFT, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Green boom busted?
- The global outlook for clean tech energy investment is gloomy. A report by the International Energy Agency IEA finds that investing in alternative energy is slumping. The IEA expects green energy investment to fall below the 2007 level, far off of last year's record topping $80-billion US. ...
- Tags: International Energy Agency, Renewable Energy, Clean Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Dell one-ups rivals with latest renewable energy claim
- Dell one-ups rivals with latest renewable energy claimWho cares?I buy the best solutions that fit my needs.Nothing Dell makes is best or even worthy of anyone's consideration.
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, renewable energy, Dell Computer Corp., Nothing Dell make
- Discussion threads 2009-06-02
- Dell one-ups rivals with latest renewable energy claim
- First posted on Smartplanet's Business Brains blog. The equations that some companies use to calculate their exposure to alternative energy sources are admittedly somewhat misleading and completely self-serving. Keep in mind that often, when a company says that 50 percent or even 100 percent of its energy...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Dell Computer Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Dell tops new corporate sustainability index
- Hewlett-Packard has got to be steamed. Dell has one-upped it on a new Corporate Sustainability Index that is being researched and rated by the Global Business Sustainability Service division of Technology Business Research. Ouch. Dell earned an overall score of 317.9 on the index, compared with the...
- Tags: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Dell Computer Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Photos: Silicon Valley adopts renewable energy tech
- City and county governments in Silicon Valley are looking toward solar and fuel cell technology to provide cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable energy. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Fuel Cell, Renewable Energy, Photograph, Fuel Cells, Telecom & Utilities, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-05-18
- Renewable energy: who's got it, who's getting it?
- Renewable energy: who's got it, who's getting it?Enough to this energy already....Everyone needs to go back to living like the dark ages, EXCEPT the liberals in Washingtonall of the others can do without.Forget about having a job, who needs that andfood, don't do that because you may causethe FARCE of...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, renewable energy
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Renewable energy: who's got it, who's getting it?
- The NRDC has just put online maps showing where the renewable enerrbgy rresources of the U.S. are. And each maps shows where there are facilities already useing those resources, or are in planning stage. Click here to check out wind, solar, and biomass resource maps for the U.S....
- Tags: U.S., Renewable Energy, NRDC, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Oracle report offers cautionary tale for utilities: Don't even think about charging for energy consumption reports
- With billions of dollars private and public going to smart grid, it stands to reason that we should figure out whether people really want this stuff. Oracle has done just that, with its new research report out this week called "Turning Information Into Power." The data, which...
- Tags: U.S., Renewable Energy, Oracle Corp., Utility Manager, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
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