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Forget the crabs, Maryland gets solar

For the second straight day the University of Maryland leads in the Solar Decathlon competition in Washington D.C. But several teams are withing striking distance. The winner will be announced Friday. The U.S. Department of Energy is one of the sponsors, along with BP, Sprint...

Tags: Maryland, Team, U.S. Department Of Energy, Team Management, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-17

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

New microscope could focus nanotech dream

New microscope could focus nanotech dreamUS Department of Energy needs this why?A hundred million dollars to do what? Why does the Department of Energy need something like this? Do they not have enough on their plate dealing with the here and now and our countries energy needs? ...

Tags: U.S. Department of Energy, DOE, Department of Energy, nanotechnology

Discussion threads 2004-12-01

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Tags: Apple Macintosh, MySQL, Navicat, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Green Grid releases green data center resources

Looks like The Green Grid is getting deeper into the Green IT tools business. The organization has launched a free online site with maps that data center managers in Japan and 33 European countries can use to figure out the extent to which they can use free cooling (the process...

Tags: Data Center, Grid, Green Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-05

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

Scientists replicate the physics of a stellar jet in laboratory

Astronomers will tell you that among the most beautiful structures observed in the Universe are the intricate jets of matter speeding away from accreting stars, such as young proto-stars and stellar mass black holes. But they have a hard time explaining it. A pair of professors the University of Rochester...

Tags: Jet, Magnetic Field, Team Management, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Omaha college teams with IBM for data center degree program

The Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska, is using funding from a U.S. Department of Labor grant to build out an enterprise data center chuck full of IBM equipment. Those systems, which are Power Systems running AIX, IBM i and Linux, will be used as the foundation for the college's...

Tags: Team, Data Center, IBM Corp., Metropolitan Community College, Data Center Internship, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Microsoft goes Hohm with energy-tracking application

Software giant Microsoft is beta-testing an application called Microsoft Hohm that consumers can use to track energy usage and figure out ways that their household can conserve. To make the case that this is something we all need, the company is holding up figures from a May...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Opportunities for investing in solar technology

At the Intersolar Conference in San Francisco, Scott Stephens, Photovoltaic Specialist for the U.S. Department of Energy, explains why he's optimistic about the future. He expects the market to stabilize and manufacturing to begin to consolidate. In addition, he says, the DOE is always searching for solar technology that improves...

Tags: Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Opportunities for investing in solar technology

At the Intersolar Conference in San Francisco, Scott Stephens, Photovoltaic Specialist for the U.S. Department of Energy, explains why he's optimistic about the future. He expects the market to stabilize and manufacturing to begin to consolidate. In addition, he says, the DOE is always searching for solar technology that...

Tags: Manufacturing, Intersolar

Videos 2009-07-15

Photos: Inside a nuclear reactor

At the Idaho National Lab, the leading U.S. Department of Energy nuclear energy research facility, reactors are still running strong, and there's a strong push for nuclear adoption to help reduce our carbon footprint, while being safer than ever. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-07-09

Taxpayers are NOT bailing out Ford Motor, or are we?

We all know the sorry saga of two-thirds of the former Detroit Big Three. GM in bankruptcy, shedding brands and trying to become competitive once again. Chrylser is now essentially a distribution arm for Fiat, a second tier car company that had no American market share a year...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-23

Got some opinions about smart grid technology? U.S. Commerce Department seeks feedback

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, part of the U.S. Commerce Department of Commerce, has published a lengthy report detailing its notions about what should be included in the U.S. smart grid. Here's a quick excerpt from the summary: "The greatest benefit from the smart...

Tags: Innovation, Grid Computing, Diversity, U.S. Department Of Commerce, Grid, Standards, NIST, Quality, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Billion-year ultra-dense memory chip developed

There's always been an inverse relationship between density and durability when it comes to data storage. Today's silicon memory chips contain a lot of density, but with a lifespan of just a few decades, they lack durability.  Yet primitive forms of storage such as information carved in stone are highly...

Tags: Shuttle, Nanotube, Carbon Nanotube, Nanoparticle, Memory Chip, Chip, Memory Device, Shuttle Memory, Nanotechnology, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Boston-Power aims to ramp up green battery production

Green computer battery maker Boston-Power must be doing all right for itself. The company is build a 455,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Auburn, Mass., to produce its lithium-ion battery technology, which is offered as replacement options for notebooks for Hewlett-Packard. The site is expected to create 600 new jobs. ...

Tags: Lithium-ion, Battery, Lithium-ion Battery, Boston-Power, Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Forget local fracking, let's drill, baby, drill

There's a sandpile full of natural gas under the Gulf of Mexico. Does that signal the next energy bubble or what? This would get around any complaints of fracking on land, no humans live out there. Today the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed findings that there is considerable...

Tags: U.S., Gulf Of Mexico, Natural Gas, USGS, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-29

How dead are American hydrogen cars?

Has the dream of hydrogen-powered cars gone up in a puff of vapor? Has it evaporated? Was it all hot air? It was back in 2003 that the American President asked for over a billion dollars to make our auto fleet more hydrogen-powerful. Some hydro-advocates still...

Tags: Car, Hydrogen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-20

U.S. battery company tries to power up

We all know Micihigan leads the country in unemployment and in dinosaur car companies. Amidst the nostalgia for days go by, some entrepreneurs are pushing for a re-birth. An Ann Arbor start-up is wanting to a big in the world of batteries. Sakti3 has backing...

Tags: Battery, Department Of Energy, Sakti3, Sakti, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Here comes some R and D: nanotech in carville

Some brave Angelenos will be working on nano-tech for combatting global warming. Yes, right there amid freeways and palpable smog and all the gas-burning cars in Los Angeles, some engineers will be using federal money to find nano-ways to more efficiently capture solar energy. Also, they're looking for...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Car, California, Nanotechnology, DOE, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-05