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 [...]
Despite the near daily hum telling us that we’re in big trouble, sometimes we read something that makes us think: wow, we’re in big trouble. An Ernst & Young report released yesterday profiling 40 benchmark oil exploration and production companies in the U.S. found oil production has remained flat at 1.2 billion barrels per year [...]
New Jersey’s Public Service Electric & Gas Company, an investor owned utility, has filed a proposal with the state’s Board of Public Utilities to launch a $45.9 million demand side management program. Demand side management (DSM) is a method utilities use to reduce consumer demand for electricity and gas through the introduction of efficiency measures [...]
In 40,000 years, after the last of the Himalayas have disappeared under the Indian Ocean, and future generations with webbed feet and gills rule the world from their outposts on rusted-out oil platforms, the memory of corn will have long been forgotten. Perhaps it will survive as a chapter in some elementary school history book [...]
Drug maker Schering-Plough is getting a 1.7-megawatt solar system for its New Jersey facilities in a deal that, to some degree, forges new ground in solar.
The novelty in the deal is that Schering-Plough makes medicines. So far, the big solar installations have mostly been commissioned by companies directly or strongly interested in seeing solar power [...]
I talked a while ago about the elusiveness of the “Killer Amp,” and ended, perhaps in a cop out, saying there isn’t one for greentech, only the White House and Congress have the power to truly invigorate this market through policy, not a compelling new application at the consumer end.
But maybe I was going about [...]
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Buildings are the George Harrison of green tech. Usually, it's the first two guys--solar and biofuels--that come to mind when the green tech gets debated. ...
Tesla Motors chairman Elon Musk is serious about getting beyond sports cars. At a press conference with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tesla co-founder and chairman Elon ...
Despite the near daily hum telling us that we're in big trouble, sometimes we read something that makes us think: wow, we're in big trouble. ...
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