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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A General Motors patent application addresses one of the downsides of electric vehicles--battery degradation--with a system that would let technicia...
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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.
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After looking around for home energy efficiency investments for years, venture capital company General Catalyst decided to buy a majority stake in C...
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Chill factor: the N200 solar bulb basks in the winter sun.
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The mercury reads 12 degrees outside, but it feels like minus ...
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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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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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A school in Tuicun Village in Tibet where Suntech donated solar panels.
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Suntech Power, the China-based solar manufacturing gia...
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Heliostats track and focus sunlight directly onto BrightSource&39's Luz Power Tower solar boiler, which contains a steam turbine to generate electr...
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A new type of solar thermal system for homes that can provide heat, hot water, and electricity is being tested in Boulder, Colo., over the next few m...
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GE's FlexEfficiency 50 Combined Cycle Power Plant
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At a Paris event on Wednesday, GE announced a new gas-fuelled power plant it says...
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1366 Technologies, a start-up created to make solar electricity cheaper than coal, is set to receive a loan to build its first factories, bringing t...
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The Pelamis P2 wave energy converter from Pelamis Wave Power
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The European Union will consider whether a massive wave ...
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Green utopia A vision for the central square of Panasonic&39's planned subdivision in Fujisawa.
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Japanese urban planning can b...
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Vivint is a home security company looking for growth in home energy and solar installations.
The company, formerly called APX Alarms, today is sche...
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Chipmaker Freescale has designed a USB charger that knows when to stop working.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, Freescale ...
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Rather than waiting until the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show to reveal it's first production hybrid, Audi released near full specs and video clips of i...
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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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The 2011 Honda Civic GX
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The Honda Civic GX is the greenest
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Because it's energy-efficient, LED lighting is spreading into new areas, but an academic study cautions that some types of LED lights use hazardous ...
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