The U.S. Energy Department said on Thursday it awarded a $967 million loan guarantee to an NRG Energy subsidiary to help pay for the world's biggest... read more »
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Seattle Seahawks President Peter McLoughlin checks out a Solyndra solar array on the roof of Qwest Field. (Credit: Solyndra/Corky Trewin) The Seat... read more »
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Bord GĦis Energy, Ireland&'s main supplier of natural gas, has just invested $1.3 million in OpenHydro, which manufactures tidal energy systems.Tidal ... read more »
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By the end of this year, people will be able to buy an LED light bulb controllable from an Android device, part of Google's move into home automatio... read more »
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In a carefully orchestrated series of announcements this morning, hot fuel cell company Bloom Energy announced a new electricity service that allows c... read more »
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Battery pack lets Ego cruise for up to eight hours. (Credit: Raonhaje) This sub could make even Philippe Cousteau, with so many water toys at his... read more »
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The range of the plug-in-only Nissan Leaf varies with real-world driving conditions. (Credit: Nissan) Everything is come up roses for the all-elec... read more »
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Thanet Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Kent, England, is a precursor to the North Sea project. (Credit: Vattenhall) Swedish energy company Vat... read more »
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GreenWave Reality bulb with the NXP chipset. (Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET) NXP Semiconductors has developed chipsets for CFL and LED light bulbs ... read more »
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A Microsoft-sponsored analysis released today reaffirms what many tech companies have long been saying: computing is more efficient when it's concen... read more »
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Solar panel manufacturer SpectraWatt, which was spun out of chip giant Intel, will close its newly opened New York plant and expects to lay off work... read more »
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(Credit: Solyndra) Solyndra has found a second use for its solar collector as a shade for greenhouses. The company on Monday said that that its ... read more »
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The Uno electric scooter is a unique beast: an electric scooter that looks like a mini-motorcycle and folds up into a Segway-like scooter balanced o... read more »
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Robotics manufacturing tends to evoke visions of a John Henry-esque scenario in which competent women and men lose jobs to hunks of automated metal. ... read more »
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Siemens wind turbines at the Farr Wind Farm located near Inverness, Scotland. (Credit: Siemens) MidAmerican Energy plans to install 593 megawatts ... read more »
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Empa and Flisom&39's flexible CIGS solar cell made on a polymer substrate. (Credit: Empa) Swiss scientists have broken an energy conversion effic... read more »
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Facebook announced today it&'s going green. The social networking giant unveiled &''Green on Facebook,&'' a site geared toward sharing environmentally... read more »
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Philips is introducing an LED bulb that gives off as much light as a 75-watt incandescent bulb and consume 17 watts of power. The lighting giant sa... read more »
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A view of 100 flywheels, inside the blue cylinder-shaped structures, out of a planned 200 installed in a 20-megawatt storage system. (Credit: Beaco... read more »
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday launched the Urban Technology Innovation Center, an initiative to test ways to improve building effi... read more »
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