Smart meters are a nearly complete solution for home energy management, offering detailed information on power use and potential savings. But until everyone has a smart meter--a goal that will take many years to ...READ»
We spend a lot of time looking at the latest green batteries for our gadgets, but what if we could eliminate batteries altogether? GreenPeak, a Netherlands-based startup, thinks we can. The company plans to use its newly-acquired ...READ»
Some cost-conscious server companies are beginning to use netbook hardware inside their machines to cut costs, according to The New York Times.
Intel's low-cost, low-power Atom CPU, which can be found in pretty much every netbook on ...READ»
Google's PowerMeter, a piece of software that uses information from smart meters to help save energy, has been in testing for a number of months. But when it is released later this year, less than 10% of all homes will be hooked up ...READ»
GE first showed off its smart grid-aware oven ranges, hot water heaters, and dryers this past May. The appliance manufacturer is about to face some major competition from Whirlpool, which just announced plans to put 1 million Smart ...READ»
As we discussed a few months ago, drilling for geothermal energy is a process that is fraught with complications. In June, startup AltaRock Energy announced plans to use a controversial method to drill for geothermal energy in ...READ»
Last month we predicted that tweeting smart meters wouldn't become popular in the United States. Perhaps we spoke too soon. Smart meter manufacturing company SmartSynch teamed up with the University of Mississippi today to design an ...READ»
Before 1859, America had no oil business. August 28 marks the 150th anniversary of its first commercial well. Today, the U.S. is the world's third-biggest oil producer and largest consumer. Join us for a tour of this gas-guzzling nation.READ»
Have you noticed the rapid proliferation of clean energy projects in the past few years? All those projects take up land. Now a paper from the Nature Conservancy predicts that the Waxman-Markey climate change bill could have the ...READ»
Companies claiming to be able to produce limitless amounts of power seem to pop up every few years and quickly fade away--witness the recent Steorn debacle, which ended in disappointment. But Blacklight Power, a startup that says it ...READ»
Wireless power. You've heard about it, you want it...but until we get our hands on it, there's just the existing wireless charging tech to please your wire-free urges. Except that, according to Strategy Analytics, it's kind of ...READ»
What would happen if we actually followed through on Waxman-Markey's emission cut requirements as they stand today? The Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit consortium of electricity-generating companies, takes a look in a new report.
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Move over T. Boone Pickens, your grand Texas wind farm dreams have been overtaken by energy start-up Baryonyx, which has won bids for three land leases--two offshore, and one in the Texas Panhandle--to build data centers in ...READ»
Big Blue has morphed into Big Green. In the Green 500 list of super-powerful computing machines, IBM has snapped up 57 of the top 100 places.
The Green list is a re-ordering of the famous annual Top 500 list of supercomputers in ...READ»
Smart meters are great for keeping track of energy use, sure, but smart appliances and tools are also necessary for homes to truly become energy-efficient. GE wants to be the conduit that allows homes of the future to produce "net ...READ»
Hohm may be Microsoft's answer to Google PowerMeter, but unlike PowerMeter, the Microsoft energy management application is a money-making venture. PowerMeter is under the philanthropic Google.org umbrella, while Hohm is part of ...READ»
Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got.READ»
The moment we allow someone else to make a decision for us, we're giving away our personal power. That goes for remaining silent when you know you need to speak up or not making a decision at all so someone or circumstances make it ...READ»
Google has been releasing information about PowerMeter, its smart-meter connected home energy-tracking app, in tiny pieces ever since it was announced in February. Today, the PowerMeter team showed off some images of the product, ...READ»
IBM broke ground on what is planned to be one of the world's most efficient data centers. The $12.4 million, 6,000 square foot center, located on the Syracuse University campus in New York, is being built with the goal of using ...READ»
The buzz about GE's Smart Appliances--microwaves, oven ranges, hot water heaters and dryers equipped with smart grid communication technology--has been building for months. Some of the appliances go into a low power mode when ...READ»
Orange U.K. and GotWind have developed a colorful alternative to traditional plug-powered cell phone chargers: the Power Pump, a charger powered by kinetic energy. Orange's pump, scheduled to debut at this June's Glastonbury ...READ»
What's the best way to deal with waste from 35,000 horses? Turn it into energy, of course. The city of Sanford, Florida, located in a region dubbed the "Horse Capital of the World", is converting wastewater sludge from the ...READ»
Rooftop solar panel installation is often a time-consuming and complicated process, but Armageddon Energy's new prefab panels are practically roof-ready when they come out of the box. A solar "clover" ...READ»
Designer Taikkun Li's Prayer Wheel Energy Generator proves that praying can actually have immediate earthly benefits. Li's device is essentially a Tibetan prayer wheel outfitted with used bicycle parts and a discarded fan ...READ»
