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- Cleantech award winners
- The Cleantech Group announced two tech winners at the Cleantech Forum XXIII in Boston. exro Technologies won for Most Promising Technology. exro makes Variable Input Electric Generator VIEG, an electrical generator intended to drive down the capital cost of renewable energy while delivering double-digit improvement to...
- Tags: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Johnson Controls Inc., Clean Technology, Exro, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Wind energy: recession proof?
- 2008 was another record year for increased use of wind energy to generate electricity in the U.S. For the fourth straight year the U.S. led the planet in adding new wind energy generation capacity. That was before any stimulus plan. It was certainly boosted by 2008's rising...
- Tags: U.S., Recession, Wind Energy, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Lofty aspirations for power efficiency: Power Loft seeks silver certification for new data center
- Colocation data center Power Loft began dreaming about greener data centers several years ago, long before it became vogue to do so. Now, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard's Critical Facilities Services, the company has designed a 200,000-square-foot facility in Prince William County, Va., that can deliver between 120...
- Tags: Facility, Certification, Data Center, Virginia, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Wind dying down...for the nonce
- Wind dying down...for the nonceSo China is building a third generator?All I ever see is coal fired plants when I am there.Translated..."driven partly by new federal laws and policies"Subsidized. By OUR tax dollars. If it can't compete on its own costs...STICK A FORK IN IT.Does that mean take...
- Tags: subsidy
- Discussion threads 2009-04-14
- Cyberspies penetrate electrical grid: report
- Cyberspies penetrate electrical grid: reportSo much for the "smart grid"So much for the "smart grid" being the solution to our electric reliability problems."Smart meter" is being forced upon me at my expense by the powers that be. Bad enough that the power company could then decide I don't really...
- Tags: grid, CyberSpy, electrical grid
- Discussion threads 2009-04-08
- Want to own your own home generator?
- Want to own your own home generator?A bit catch-22?Start burning recyclables to generate electricity and now we'll need more raw resources...Nope, won't fly with environmentalists.It burns waste, the only solution, stop wasting. Everyone should produce zero garbage. This just adds to global warming and as of now we...
- Tags: environmentalist, home generator
- Discussion threads 2009-01-20
- Utilities back 'climate friendly' energy technologies
- Utilities back 'climate friendly' energy technologiesToo Bad......your homeowners association will refuse your request to put solar panels on your roof -or- drill for geo-thermal energy or, God-forbid a wind generator... HA. Good luck with that.They do absolutely nothing about bratty kids who destroy other's property, hang around blasting...
- Tags: lawn, energy technology, Utilities
- Discussion threads 2009-01-17
- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum
- Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water. The search giant filed for a patent in February. The...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Computing Unit, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Community solar: "Why don't they get it in Washington?"
- Community solar: "Why don't they get it in Washington?"What is the maintanance cost, and backup planshould a storm or fire destroy the structure?It's all about feeling goodThere are people who think logically, and people who think emotionally. Logically, solar is still a losing technology when factoring in all costs...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- The little wind turbines that could
- The little wind turbines that couldAll righty then...Here's the scoop. The average american household uses 14,000 kWh/year, about 1,200 per month in round numbers, meaning a 6kWh generator is about the right size--assuming the wind never dies.I couldn't find prices for Proven Energy, but a Quiet Revolution 6kWh unit costs...
- Tags: Engineering, battery, turbine
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Images: Supersize solar power
- Utility-scale solar power plants--using everything from giant reflective dishes to plastic balloons--are changing the look of solar power.Parabolic troughs, one of which is shown here, have been around for 25 years, and the technology will be around for at least another 25. Parabolic troughs reflect sunlight to heat liquid carried...
- Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, Trough, Photovoltaics, Plant, mW, Solar Power Plant, Arizona Public Service, BrightSource Energy, Concentrator, Stirling Engine Systems, Infinia, It', SolFocus, What', Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-26
- Florida going slowly solar?
- Florida going slowly solar?Conspiracy theories?If you're the sort that likes conspiracy theories... here's a couple:1) Big Oil has it's eyes on drilling in the Gulf and so this is a way to butter up the State for that push.2) A respected university with a failed solar power plan (too costly,...
- Tags: SolarCity, lease
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Islands of hope in an ocean of energy
- Courtesy Wavebob. Britain and Ireland have a long and bloody mutual history. They've ended open hostility and the neighboring nations now share and compete with a possible future energy source: the restless waves of the North Atlantic. Both Ireland and the United Kingdom are looking...
- Tags: Ireland, Strategy, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Management, Servers, Hardware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Painful lesson in OLPC mesh networking for Mongolians
- Painful lesson in OLPC mesh networking for MongoliansYou all Jump around too much!!The biggest problem I see with the Mesh is that a hop basically jumps around from computer to computer looking for a way back home. That is a lot of jumping. Then you have the fact...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Meraki, One Laptop Per Child project, network, mesh networking, mesh
- Discussion threads 2008-01-30
- 10 green tech predictions for the new year
- Hello and Happy New Year! Searching for some eco-inspiration in 2008? Here are my 10 totally random green tech predictions, based partially on the wide variety of briefings that I’ve taken in the past five months and partially on nothing more than gut, which is how you’ll choose to read...
- Tags: Google Inc., Green Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-01-01
- Some green magnetism: Start-up harnesses kinetic movement to generate electricity
- M2E Power (M2E meaning Motion to Energy) has snagged $8 million in Series A venture capital funding to turn its patent-pending ideasâ€"which convert simple motion into electricityâ€"into products such as batteries and generators. The investor lead on the round is OVP Venture Partners, with additional funds...
- Tags: Generator, Battery, M2E Power, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- If kids don't have electricity, will a laptop change their lives?
- If kids don't have electricity, will a laptop change their lives?Children Between Two Rocks and a Hard PlaceI am betting that the OLPC will be the spark that sets their imaginations on fire and symbolize hope for a chance at having a better life.Let's keep that hope going. That's...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- Let 'er blow, whales to wind, Hulluva idea!
- Hull, Mass. is a windy place. Southeast of Boston it faces north, toward those winds that often come blasting down the Atlantic Coast. Lemons=lemonade, they say. And Hull's making that wind energy pay off. They put up their first municipal wind-driven electricity generator in...
- Tags: CBS Interactive Inc., City, Harry Fuller, Hull, Resident
- Blog posts 2007-09-01
- 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
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