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The machines for making TVs

Not everything gets made overseas. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos tours the Silicon Valley facilities of Applied Materials, where they make equipment for producing televisions and solar panels.

Tags: News, Michael Kanellos, solar, solar panels, TV's, Applied Materials, Silicon Valley, plasma, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Videos 2008-04-30

Google shows real-time solar power statistics

Google shows real-time solar power statisticsSeasonalDon't forget that we're approaching the winter solstice and the solar energy produced will be lowest this time of the year... I have no idea what they generate in summer, but this is the minimum production all year.agree it's too muchThat statement is like saying...

Tags: Coffee Shops, Google Inc., solar energy, solar power statistic, real-time solar power statistic, coffee machine, Solar Panels

Discussion threads 2007-12-10

Additional Resources

Chrome OS: Some Early Preview Videos

google should move away from linuxI suppose they could easily take away all those messes of the current os by doing that. Haha! Crummy-um "Chromium OS and Open Source" video-- the guy is calling it Crummy-um! Sounds about right.RE: Chrome OS: Some Early Preview VideosAnd ZDNet falls hook, line,...

Tags: Corporate communications, Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, ChromeOS, Chrome, Chrome OS, early Preview Video, operating system, Preview Video, video

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

More evidence of the coming collision between home broadband and the smart grid

Collision?Not the word I would have used.In any event, I think this is a positive and necessary direction to go. In order to manage more diversified, less dependable/consistent sources of energy, the demand side HAS TO be managed. Without it, we are just setting ourselves up for a lot of...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, collision, home broadband, grid, smart grid

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Green building boom

Somebody please explain something here.How can these green building--and associated manufacturing--jobs not be the same old "not green" jobs just slid into a new spot? Are these in addition to the "not green" jobs. Are the old "not green" just canned and dropped from the rolls of humanity....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, McGraw-Hill Construction, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

There's still VC juice out there for greentech firms

A Washington State solar power company just got over three million dollars in additional funding. Earlier Infinia had investments from both Vinod Khosla and Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. That's another little tech company based in Washington State. Infinia uses parabolic dishes to focus...

Tags: Solar Energy, Infinia Website, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Tracking efficiency

Array Technologies has been in the solar tracking business for a couple decades. And using GPS systems for solar tracking is nothing new. GPS itself is now an ancient tech dating back to 1993. Hell, it's older than even the public-access Internet. GPS itself is a...

Tags: Panel, Array, GPS, Handhelds, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Copenhagen countdown

"climate debt" is BS. It's wealth transfer.From countries that work, to countries that don't work.And Harry. This is a TECH SITE. Go somewhere else with your anxious alarmist nonsense.AMEN!THIS IS A TECH SITE!Well, I think going to Copenhagen is too political and he should skip it.Better to do some behind...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, sea surface temperature, wealth transfer, tax

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Samsung Blue Earth

Photo gallery:Samsung Blue EarthAs it does with most trends, Samsung is pursuing eco-friendly cell phones with vigor. It already gave us the Samsung Reclaim, and now we finally have a chance to review the Samsung Blue Earth. Forgive us if we're a bit excited, but Samsung has been holding this...

Tags: Keyboards, Cellular phones, Blue Earth, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-10-23

Samsung Blue Earth photos

With its eco-friendly design and spiffy solar panels, the Samsung Blue Earth is more than just a gimmick; it's also an appealing cell phone with character. by CNET News.com

Tags: Earth, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-10-23

The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...

Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-17

Wi-Fi Direct connections coming soon; Like Bluetooth, but better

"Ad-Hoc Network??"The way this article is written sounds very similar to how one might describe an ad-hoc wireless network (which has been around since Day 1 of Wi-Fi). Given the fact I can already do all the things that are mentioned to a limited degree, could you the author please...

Tags: Engineering, Wireless LANs, Mice, Wireless and Mobility, Bluetooth, way this article, battery, Wi-Fi, mouse, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Uncle Sam: less wasteful?

President Obama has just solidified his lasting credentials...as being hopeful. He actually is trying to push energy efficiency inside the federal government, America's largest energy consumer. Solar Humvees in Iraq? Fewer limos with their motors running at Dulles Airport? Shut down Washington D.C. in August and...

Tags: President, Barack Obama, Real Estate, Construction, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Photo of Powerhouse Solar Shingle

YES!I've been waiting for this kind of solar option for years. I'm glad someone has finally made the push to make it a reality!RE: Photo of Powerhouse Solar ShingleWe need more of this technology as soon as possible. I wonder if new building codes will be necessary to optimize...

Tags: Powerhouse Solar Shingle, solar panel, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

The new way to get rooftop solar installed: standard-sized shingles

DOW is beginning to market its new solar shingles. They can be integrated into the standard-sized asphalt shingle roofs common over much of America. The DOWâ„¢ POWERHOUSEâ„¢ Solar Shingles are photovoltaic solar panels in the form of shingles. The groundbreaking technology from Dow Solar Solutions DSS...

Tags: Photovoltaics, The Dow Chemical Co., Dow Solar Solutions, Powerhouse Solar Shingle, Powerhouse Shingles, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Big carbon emitters fighting two wars simultaneously in America

ZDNet is a tech site.nt.To be more specific:this is a computer tech site. This is not a political forum for non-computer related rants by treehuggers and tax-increasing socialists. I am pointing out that Fuller's Gaia-licking & definitely political blogs are out of place here.And, tech will be a big part...

Tags: carbon, carbon emitter

Discussion threads 2009-10-03

A no-fuss solar-powered building

The Boston team in the Solar Decathlon competition is shooting for affordability. Apart from the solar panels, they are using almost entirely building materials that can be found at local hardware stores. by CNET News.com

Tags: Hardware, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-09-21

Windmills stir up opposition

Let's do some mathHarry:How much energy is recoverable, year in, year out, for vertical turbine blades?What percentage of the US' domestic energy usage does that amount to?This is very basic arithmetic.Likewise, when you factor in the energy costs needed to make the lithium ion batteries of the Prius, and assume...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind energy

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

Liveblog: Sony announces $399 7" Wi-Fi 3G e-book Reader; will it kill the Kindle?

Goodnight KindleWitch cheaper competition Amazon is finished. I'm surprised that it was Sony who stepped up.The game is getting interestingThough I am pretty sure it's a few years or decades too early to be declaring anything a "Kindle killer" or a "Sony killer". Basically the market is still very...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Games, Wi-Fi, Amazon.com Inc., Sony Corp., game

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

News to know: Bing; Windows; HP; RIM; ZuiTUbe; CD sales; Wimax

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google Ed Bott: XP, Vista, or Windows 7: Which OS is...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., CD, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, E-mail, WiMAX, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Online Communications, Wireless And Mobility

Blog posts 2009-08-19