In a move to beef up demand for its product, Chinese solar wafer manufacturer LDK Solar announced today it has acquired a 70 percent stake valued at $... read more »
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The U.S. government yesterday gave four biofuel companies loan guarantees of nearly $650 million to help build plants that will make motor fuels fr... read more »
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By far, the biggest danger from the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant is to the workers who are trying to control a still-volatile s... read more »
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(Credit: Sapphire Energy) March is known as the green month, so it's fitting that only one week into it there's already some interesting news fo... read more »
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This year's Cleantech Open 2010 Business Competition winner, announced last week, is Puralytics, a company developing photochemical water purifica... read more »
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This is the first time in the 47-year history of the annual competition that the award has gone to an electric vehicle, in this case the Nissan Lea... read more »
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The California Energy Commission has approved a permit for SolarReserve to build a 150-megawatt solar plant that uses molten salt to store energy, th... read more »
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The Chevy Volt qualifies for a tax credit due to its electric drivetrain and battery capacity. (Credit: GM) Tax cheats found lucrative ground la... read more »
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This Defender EV concept runs silent, so is less likely to spook animals. (Credit: Axeon) The Land Rover Defender has been a mainstay for Africa... read more »
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GlassPoint&39's glass buildings are about 20 feet high and have mirrors inside which makes steam. (Credit: GlassPoint) In a meeting of solar ener... read more »
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(Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET) Now that the electric Nissan Leaf has gotten an official fuel economy rating, all eyes are on the Chevy Volt, the ... read more »
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This Honda Civic is ChargeCar&39's latest conversion. It can travel at least 40 miles in mixed driving on a charge. (Credit: CMU) If you're si... read more »
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The diesel-electric hybrid &34'New Bus for London,&34' made by Wrightbus and designed in conjunction with Heatherwick studio, has been chosen to be... read more »
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You've heard of turning recycled plastic bottles into floor carpeting or clothing. How about back into oil Digging through a high-tech recycling c... read more »
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Massachusetts utility regulators today approved the initial power purchase agreement for Cape Wind, bringing the controversial offshore wind farm pr... read more »
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Ocean Power Technologies&39' new energy-harvesting buoy. Once in the water, it will be in a vertical position with the foundation on left at the bo... read more »
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To improve solar cell efficiency, Stanford researchers added a self-assembling monolayer (SAM) of an organic molecule to a titanium oxide semicon... read more »
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J.D. Power and Associates today forecast that 7 percent of new auto sales in 2020 will be hybrids or battery electric vehicles but a "mass migration... read more »
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Home Depot, which is making an aggressive push into LED lighting, has started selling a Philips LED bulb designed as a replacement for the 60-watt i... read more »
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OriginOil's illustration of what Algae Screen accomplishes (Credit: OriginOil) OriginOil has developed a new method for targeting invading microbe... read more »
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