At some point recently, a group of world leaders must have gotten together and decided that the best way to save our planet was through prizes. Hence we have the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE, the Financial Times Climate Change ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Wed May 13, 2009 at 12:49 PM
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»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Wed May 13, 2009 at 1:30 PM
The world's largest wind farm, dubbed the London Array, has been given the go-ahead after months of doubt caused by Shell pulling out of the project. The project, funded by E.ON, Dong Energy, and Masdar, is back on thanks
to ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Mon May 18, 2009 at 3:59 PM
SunPower's new iPhone application makes it easy to monitor solar panel performance on the go. The application is just one part of the SunPower Monitoring System, which keeps track of SunPower solar panel performance with an in-home ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Tue May 19, 2009 at 1:10 PM
Bus stations are generally information-poor, displaying little more than the time of the next bus arrival. But MIT's SENSEable City Lab envisions a richer bus station experience that could, according to MIT's Carlo Ratti, ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Tue May 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Bucher CityCat H2, the world's first municipal utility vehicle powered by fuel cells, made its debut last week in Basel, Switzerland. The street-cleaning CityCat will undergo an 18-month trial to see how well it can reduce air ...READ»
BYMiller Huang Relevancy Score: 100 Tue May 19, 2009 at 11:11 PM
The world's smallest solar powered car - it zooms along when the sun shines on the solar panel. No batteries - it gets its power just from the sun. No assembly required. Measures a tiny 3.3 x 2.2 x 1.4 cm. READ»
BYClay Dillow Relevancy Score: 100 Wed May 20, 2009 at 1:40 PM
With all the potential good wind power could do for the carbon economy, one of the objections hindering its implementation is aesthetic; people simply don't want massive turbines dotting the landscape and marring their views. The ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Tue May 26, 2009 at 8:00 AM
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are often criticized for being energy inefficient, but that hasn't stopped the annual Hydrogen Road Tour from demonstrating the capabilities of fuel cell-equipped cars. The annual rally spans over 1,700 ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Fri May 22, 2009 at 2:49 PM
It's a good year for environmentally-conscious beer lovers; manufacturers have become increasingly responsive to consumer demands for sustainable alcohol, and that means it's easier than ever to impress your Memorial Day BBQ ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Tue May 12, 2009 at 4:53 PM
There are lots of creative ways to produce biofuel from algae, but NASA's takes the cake. The space agency is growing biofuel in plastic bags of sewage floating in the sea. The Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae (OMEGA) ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Mon May 11, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Want to manage your energy consumption by playing a video game? The OpenShaspa Home Energy Kit aims to do just that, by letting you oversee energy management in a virtual world. Shaspa's kit, which is constructed from ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Thu May 7, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Northern Power Systems unveiled a community wind power package for schools earlier this week at WINDPOWER 2009 featuring a turbine meant for school use and an accompanying educational package.
As part of the package, schools ...READ»
BYFrancine Hardaway Relevancy Score: 100 Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 3:58 PM
When I became involved in the American Biofuels Council three years ago, the push for biofuels was at its highest point in the technology hype cycle. Now, in Arizona, under the aegis of the Desert Biofuels Initiative, a non-profit ...READ»
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) launched a Google Earth mash-up map earlier this month to show alternative energy installers where they might run into trouble with legal restrictions or endangered wildlife advocates. ...READ»
It won't cut into Google's traffic any time soon, but the reegle search engine could be a boon to renewable energy information addicts. The search engine, provided by the Renewable Energy and Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) and ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Mon May 4, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Skyline Solar, a Silicon Valley start-up founded by SolFocus veteran Bob McDonald, unveiled its low-cost, high-efficiency High Gain Solar Arrays (HGS) this morning. The two-year-old company's HGS, expected to be released later ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Tue May 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM
The electric grid is a hot topic right now, with improved smart grid technologies and alternative power sources coming online every day. It's also massively complex--an aging network of local and regional fiefdoms. But NPR has ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Tue May 5, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Massachusetts-based startup SunDrum is working on a liquid-filled heat sink that boosts the power output of photovoltaic panels (PV) and heats water--all with the help of a solar collector that's similar to something you would see ...READ»
BYCliff Kuang Relevancy Score: 100 Wed May 6, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Living on 2,000 watts is harder than it sounds--that's roughly a sixth of the average rate of energy consumption in America.* But GFRY Studio, a graduate course at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, challenged ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Wed May 6, 2009 at 4:34 PM
The results from Johnson Controls' Energy Efficiency Indicator (EEI) survey are back, with few surprises. The report, which surveyed 1,400 North American executives in charge of energy management, found that the execs are ...READ»
BYCliff Kuang Relevancy Score: 100 Thu May 7, 2009 at 10:50 AM
This week Eneco, a Dutch energy company, kicked off a "battle of the watt" to challenge people to lower their energy use. The device, naturally, was designed by Marcel Wanders. Produced by Innovaders, the Wattcher ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Tue May 26, 2009 at 12:40 PM
First Sharp announced the development of the world's first waterproof solar-powered cell phone, and now the company has done the world one better by developing the thinnest solar module for mobile devices ever. The LROCGO2 Solar ...READ»
BYCliff Kuang Relevancy Score: 100 Tue May 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Yesterday in Denver, members of the Obama administration outlined how $4 billion will be spent to green the nation's public housing projects. $500 million will be spent on training workers to do the retrofitting work, and the rest ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Jun 2, 2009 at 2:22 PM
The IT industry is known for its electricity-sucking tendencies and carbon emissions, which is why Dell's announcement that it now sources 26% of its electricity from renewable sources--up from 20% in 2008--is so admirable. The ...READ»
