The connections between Idealab and Google continue to grow.
RechargeIT, the part of Google.org that concentrates on clean transporation technologies, announced today that it has invested in Aptera, a company making a three-wheeled car. That marks the second time that Google (or one of its charitable subsidiaries) has invested in a company touted by the incubator.
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The leaders of the world’s large industrialized nations today emerged from a mountaintop resort in Japan and announced that they want to start tackling that climate problem any day now.
The leaders of the Group of Eight nations–the United States, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, Canada and Italy–announced after a meeting that they have agreed to [...]
Planktos, everyone’s favorite group of angry scientists that sketched out plans to sequester carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans, is back in a new form.
Planktos Science, a new company, plans to work on “ecoforestation” of new ecosystems on land and sea, according to a posting on the company’s web site. The company will be headed [...]
The transition to a restructured electricity supply industry in the U.S. has, to an extent, allowed for greater efficiencies stemming from the introduction of new technology. Specifically, the ability of new entrants to compete against incumbent utilities - at least in the 1980s and 1990s - was premised on the introduction of the combined cycle [...]
Talk about your power burp.
The Department of Energy, Sandia National Labs, and a host of municipal utilities in the Midwest are in the midst of designing a compressed air generation plant in Iowa. The plant is expected to be operational by 2012 and produce 268 megawatts of power or 50 hours of power storage. That [...]
In the chip industry, the size of chips typically only goes one way: down. By exploiting the properties of Moore’s Law, manufacturers can shrink the size of the transistors that go into their semiconductors every two years and get chips that take up less space. Although manufacturers might add features and transistors, the size of [...]
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