Beacon Power bankrupt; had US backing like Solyndra
By Tom Hals and Roberta Rampton (Reuters) - Beacon Power Corp filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, just a year after the energy storage company received a $43 million loan guarantee from a...
View ArticleBuilding a smart power grid at UCLA
Imagine a home or office where every appliance can carry on a minute-by-minute "conversation" with the local power grid, allowing devices to power down when the price of electricity is higher....
View ArticleIntellectual Ventures: TerraPower joins other big ideas in âAbundanceâ
From growing algae-based petroleum that eats carbon dioxide, to a “smart” energy grid that manages electricity consumption and storage as efficiently as possible, Dr. Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler...
View ArticleBarcelona and Cisco announce strategic initiatives to transform the city into...
The Mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, and the Cisco Chairman and CEO, John Chambers, announced a strategic collaboration agreement today to launch a number of strategic initiatives aimed at advancing...
View ArticleOblong Industries develops gesture-based OS
Some of the memorable scenes from Steven Spielberg’s futuristic thriller Minority Report involve the actor Tom Cruise facing a large transparent computer screen and manipulating images and data at a...
View ArticleJapan develops green technology and methods post-power crisis and disaster
Since Japan's Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, the country has been in an energy crisis. All but two of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors, which supplied 30 percent of...
View ArticleTaking charge: From batteries to flexible power, GE technology bulks up the...
GE has built up an arsenal of solutions to tackle energy problems lately. The company’s flexible power plants like FlexEfficiency 50 or jet-fired aeroderivative systems can ramp up and replace lost...
View ArticleMitsubishi companies launch smart grid demonstration system using EVs and...
Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Mitsubishi Electric) have completed the development and begun the operation of M-tech Labo, a...
View ArticleThe smart grid gets "smarter" with new automated software
The nation's current electric grid is so backward and inflexible that to integrate more sources of renewable energy ironically requires more power plants. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National...
View ArticleCow manure makes its way into "clean" technology
Synergy Dairy owner John Noble has will not only be selling milk to local cheese factories this year, but has also incorporated cow manure as an added opportunity venture. Noble’s farm, Synergy Dairy,...
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