In the geeky world of energy storage, there are well-understood limitations to plain old batteries and to ultracapacitors, devices able to store rel...
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Boeing's two-year study of jatropha-curcas agriculture in Brazil has found that location choice and strong...
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Shown is a map of high-speed railroads currently under construction in the U.S., as well as corridors under development, and proposed lines under...
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The solar power carport introduced by GE today.
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An innovative concept for the carport of the future was unveiled in Plainville, Conn....
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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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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...
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One of the job openings at Google is to work on heliostats, or sun-tracking mirrors used to concentrate light and produce heat in concentrating sol...
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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 $...
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BOSTON--In one respect, green-tech companies are realizing what IT manufacturers did many years ago: just selling a box will only go so far.
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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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Continuing a string of clean-energy investments, Google said today that it will invest $280 million to fund residential solar installations through ...
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Investment in clean-technology companies rose in the U.S. last year, garnering $3.98 billion in venture capital, according to a report released yeste...
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SolarCity said today that it has acquired the residential solar business from GroSolar, giving it presence in four states in the eastern U.S.
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You're driving down the highway. A big rig passes. Everything seems normal till you see a stra...
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Did the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overstep its bounds in its decision to grant a partial waiver approving the sale of gaso...
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General Electric may have grown its clean-tech business fourfold over the past six years, but Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt wishes he had spent a ...
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A topic most people once considered as boring as dirt--rare earth minerals--has fast become a matter of international significance with a direct impa...
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Cisco Systems and Ecotality, an electric-vehicle charging station company, are collaborating to make EVs part of a home energy-management system.
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NTR's Tessera Solar won approval for a 663.5-megawatt solar plant near Barstow in Southern California, the latest in a string of giant solar plants...
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