By the time President Obama announced the Better Buildings Initiative last week, forward-looking players in the energy efficiency game were already a few steps ahead. One example is New York City, which has partnered up with Columbia University to create the NYC Urban Technology Innovative Center. Its mission is to … [continued]
How ironic! The effects of climate change might turn out to create a windfall for some of the very same fossil energy companies that are essentially also causing climate change. US coal companies have seen record profits, higher exports and soaring prices as Australian coal companies have had their production … [continued]
Energy giant E.on got planning permission for a massive 230-MW offshore wind farm, the Humber Gateway wind farm, last week in the UK. This project will involve 77 wind turbines off the coast of Yorkshire in northeast England and is expected to be up and running in 2014. When completed, … [continued]
The gigantic waste hauling company Waste Management has been transforming itself into something of a jolly green giant, given its recycling operations, landfill gas recovery and sewage-to-biofuel ventures. In its latest move, company signed an agreement with the research firm Genomatica to develop processes for converting municipal landfill gas to … [continued]
New Hampshire-based geothermal ground heat exchange company LVestus Energy has just begun a Geo Thermal Purchase Agreement (GeoTPA) program that makes green, geothermal energy a cost-effective way to heat or cool a commercial facility – for no upfront money – the same way that you can buy solar power. Its … [continued]
Not the kind of breaking news you want to share, but sometimes it’s necessary. The House of Representatives are looking to cut billions of dollars in loan guarantees for solar projects according to documents released this weekend. Of course, with solar being a leading job-creation category (per dollar invested), the … [continued]
Just a few days ago the Department of Energy announced a ten-year plan to make wind and solar power as cheap as fossil fuels, and at least one top player in the future energy field is off to a roaring start. That would be GE. The company has just completed … [continued]
What most of us see as the ubiquitous blight of modern convenience consumerism, i.e., littered plastic shopping bags, Japanese inventor Akinori Ito sees as the “fuel of the future”. Like most sensible inventions, Ito’s began with the simple realization that plastic bags are made from oil. Thus, it should be … [continued]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a new program in collaboration with NASA that is sure to intrigue Trekkies everywhere. Called the 100-Year Starship Study, it’s designed to lay out what it would take to create an organization that could boldly go where no man (or woman, or … [continued]
Researchers from Harvard and the non-proft MITRE Corporation have developed a prototype computer that uses molecular-level wire circuits positioned on nanoscale tiles instead of conventional transistors. Aside from opening the door to smaller, lighter computers, the new technology could also help alleviate the growing problem of energy-guzzling computers, data centers … [continued]
