Automotive air conditioning of the future will not be the environmental blight it has been in the past. The EPA on Monday announced it has approved... read more »
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Governments are looking at ways to keep the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol going beyond 2012 in some form to defuse a standoff between rich and poor nations... read more »
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Treemetrics is taking forestry‚ high-tech with its 3D laser scanning system to accurately measure the‚ height, straightness, taper and volume of the t... read more »
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Solar photovoltaics have the potential to be the most cost-effective electricity source and could even challenge fossil fuels within 10 years. That... read more »
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China cut its first batch of rare earth export quotas for next year by more than one-tenth, in the face of a threat by the United States to complai... read more »
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Illustration of Volvo&39's wireless charging solution for the C30 Electric. (Credit: Volvo) Volvo's electric vehicle technology is about to becom... read more »
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Diagram of how a device with WiTricity couples with its source to draw power from the source&39's magnetic near field. (Credit: WiTricity) Chargin... read more »
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This black, gooey material developed at MIT is the basis of a new design meant to boost battery energy density tenfold. (Credit: MIT) Instead of ... read more »
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While it's unclear how many consumers are willing to pay more for plug-in electric cars, the case for fleet operators is a lot simpler to make, a... read more »
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Prime Minister Naoto Kan said today that renewable energy will be a key pillar of Japan's energy policy after the world's worst nuclear crisis in 2... read more »
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General Electric's decision to acquire Lineage Power Holdings reflects the growing importance of power electronics amid the explosive growth of port... read more »
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Green utopia A vision for the central square of Panasonic&39's planned subdivision in Fujisawa. (Credit: Panasonic) Japanese urban planning can b... read more »
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As Japan grapples with a nuclear reactor crisis in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami, many in the U.S. have been wondering abou... read more »
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In May, President Obama visited Solyndra&39's Fab 2 plant in Fremont, Calif. The plant was originally intended to run concurrently with its Fab 1 p... read more »
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(Credit: Accenture) The Chinese government has committed $15 billion over the next 10 years to the electric vehicle (EV) industry alone, while t... read more »
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This post is brought to you by IBM. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. IBM had no involvement in the content o... read more »
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Following a financing deal for ecoATM, you may be able to clear out the digital skeletons in your closet on a trip to the mall. San Diego-based e... read more »
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Xtreme Power&39's utility-scale energy storage units store energy and can be used to regulate the ebb and flow of intermittent energy sources lik... read more »
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Chill factor: the N200 solar bulb basks in the winter sun. (Credit: Tim Hornyak ) The mercury reads 12 degrees outside, but it feels like minus ... 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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