In a move that shows how difficult it is to produce and sell electric cars, even for the giants of the auto industry, Ford announced today that 20 U.S...
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The sun may be in your
iPhone battery's future.
Yesterday, Apple received Patent No. 7,868,582 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for poweri...
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Renewable chemicals company Genomatica has raised $45 million for a demonstration-scale production and early commercialization plans for a green versi...
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The U.S. Department of Energy is offering $2.1 billion in conditional loan guarantees to support what will be the world's biggest solar power plant...
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Engineering researchers at Oregon State University developed a prototype thermally activated cooling system that converts waste heat to cooling.
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Qteros, which has a method for creating ethanol from naturally occurring microbes, has signed a partnership to bring its technology to market in Ind...
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Toyota is testing the plug-in version of the Prius in fleets, in advance of sales to the public in 2012.
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2012 Toyota...
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There&'s a ton of data involved with smart grids, and one startup called World Infrastructure Technologies (WIT)‚ is championing a way to visualize an...
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BOSTON--It's a business with extremely risk-averse customers that have little money spend. On the plus side, it's vital to life and a strained natur...
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GE is building a power plant that uses a flexible natural gas power generator coupled with concentrating solar power and wind turbines.
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The ARPA-E Summit opens this morning with seemingly dual purposes: toinspire scientists to invent and to convince Congress of ...
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Light-emitting diode (LED) lighting is more power-efficient than your typical incandescent light bulb, but it requires a different type of power setup...
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GE plans to manufacture 400 megawatts worth annually of thin-film solar cells made with cadmium telluride.
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There are many research efforts to radically improve energy storage for both vehicles and the grid, but the business models for bringing that techno...
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EcoATM is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm Desert, Calif. After our se...
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I find certainty a little dubious.
Somehow, nothing has ever seemed that certain on this earth, so when people--especially scientists or green activi...
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SoloPower&39's solar collectors are flexible and can be adhered onto a flat roof.
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SoloPower said yesterday that it has condit...
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GE will change the gas used when pouring in foam insulation for refrigerator products, a move which will reduce greenhouse gases from production si...
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This post is sponsored by Dell. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. Dell had no involvement in the content of t...
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The 260 mpg Volkswagen XL1 concept car.
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Volkswagen jumped on the plug-in bandwagon and will produce a range of plug-in hybri...
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