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- The key to fresh water: imitation spleen proteins
- The key to fresh water: imitation spleen proteinsSolar stills"Some have predicted that, as with oil, the world will face drinking-water shortages in the coming decades. Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway scooter, has come up with a system, based on a Stirling engine, that can create potable water. "I'm betting...
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- What a difference one atom makes
- A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows exactly how important a single atom can be in a complex molecule. Reporting in the Nov. 26 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Yang Yang, a professor of materials science...
- Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Solar Cell, Polymer, Solarmer Energy Inc., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Keeping clean for clean energy
- Got solar panels on your home or business? Keeping them clean is necessary if you want to get efficient conversions of solar to electricity or even to heat water. Some roofs are less that congenial palce for a person with a sponge mop. I recently heard a...
- Tags: Solar Panel, Roof, OCS Energy, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Catholic Church flirts with green tech of the solar sort
- Poking around the Web looking for green technology news on an otherwise quiet Thanksgiving weekend, when I came across this item about solar panels being installed in Vatican City. Apparently, the new Roman Catholic pope has a green bent. According to news reports,...
- Tags: Green Technology, Catholic Church, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-29
- Bay Area: sunny upside
- The past decade has seen a surge in solar installations across the San Francisco Bay Area and the Silicon Valley leads the region. Top five counties in the region: 1. Santa Clara County [San Jose]: 2,462 solar installations 2. Alameda County...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- A fully customizable home robot
- Imagine a completely customizable robot with selectable software options. Buy one component, and it will take care of your lawn. Buy another one and it will clean your toilets. With a third one, it will pick up UPS or FedEx deliveries on your porch. If you are taking some vacation,...
- Tags: Lawn, AgBot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- TI execs ramp up green tech contributions, at work and at home
- The trouble with the Green IT blog beat is there are literally hundreds of things that you could write about every day, often from the same company, but since this isn't the ONLY thing I do to put food on my table, I have to be really selective about which...
- Tags: Green Technology, Texas Instruments Inc., Ogboenyiya, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- The Green Enterprise: California Academy of Sciences [video]
- Since 1853, the California Academy of Sciences has been considered one of the world's most respected institutions. Now more than 150 years later, it's continuing to lead by example, showcasing how a museum can be environmentally sustainable from the ground up. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at the green innovations inside,...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Video, Telecom & Utilities, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- H2O + C = cool idea
- Forty years ago the protagonist in "The Graduate" was told the magic word for the future was "plastics." I would suggest the magic word for our future now is "water." Two Michigan innovators just won a prize for an air conditioning system that uses water as the coolant...
- Tags: Turbine, C, Air Conditioner, Fiber, Air Conditioning System, John Barrie, Muller, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- No drama, Obama? Sounds dramatic to me...
- In today's radio address, the President-elect specifically said he intends to add jobs in the greentech sector. Here's the specific passage: "We'll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels; fuel-efficient cars...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- The Green Enterprise: California Academy of Sciences
- Since 1853, the California Academy of Sciences has been considered one of the world's most respected institutions. Now more than 150 years later, it's continuing to lead by example, showcasing how a museum can be environmentally sustainable from the ground up. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at the green innovations inside,...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, The Green Enterprise, California Academy of Sciences, Living Roof, Aaron Pope, Ari Harding, Sumi Das
- Videos 2008-11-21
- Bay Area mayors want to electrify their commuters
- The three major cities in the San Francisco Bay Area want to lead the nation in electric autos. Today they took another big step in that direction. The mayors of San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland listed in order of population announced a plan to make battery-powered cars...
- Tags: San Jose, Battery, Bay Area, Better Place, Coulomb Technologies, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Wells Fargo team shares green tech tips for the data center
- In my quest to uncover practical information about what real data center managers are doing to decrease their energy consumption, for real, I recently spoke with two executives from Wells Fargo's Technology Information Group TIG. Scott Dillon, executive vice president and CTO for Enterprise Hosting...
- Tags: Team, Data Center, Green Technology, Wells Fargo & Co., Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Beggars, and no longer choosers
- Detroit, its auto industry and its UAW find themselves facing a whole new era. A Congress that may NOT come across with dollars to keep the Detroit Dinosaurs (that's a management team not an NBA team) playing. And today a new powerful figure in charge of the House...
- Tags: Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Mozilla's financials: 2007 strong; Portfolio takes 2008 lumps
- Mozilla's 2007 annual report reveals a foundation that's well funded--primarily by a Google search deal--and can weather a downturn. Nevertheless, 2008 is going to be a different story as Mozilla's portfolio has taken some big hits. In 2007, Mozilla had revenue of $75 million, up 12 percent...
- Tags: Mozilla Corp., Taxes, Financial Management, Mutual Funds, Investment, Free Trade, Retirement Plans, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: New update of Microsoft codename tracker available now Larry Dignan: Intel launches Core i7; Who's buying? Paul Murphy: How Intel's Nehalem...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Industry, SOA, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Oerlikon Solar sees a shining future despite dark clouds over Wall Street
- Wafer processing equipment and personnel. Courtesy: Oerlikon I blogged about Oerlikon last summer. Now the publicly-traded, Swiss-based company has come out with a new version of its turn-key thin solar panel manufacturing gear. Oerlikon Solar has developed new equipment that promises 50% more...
- Tags: Solar Panel, Tax, Manufacturing, Oerlikon Solar, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Court's decision is boon for alternative energy
- Good news for alternative energy technologies: An environmental review board has shot down EPA approval of a new coal plant, saying that the Environment Protection Agency needs to come up with nationwide standards for dealing with carbon dioxide. Wired reports that the decision means lengthy and stricter...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .
- I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Poverty, Bangladesh, Mr., Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
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