Forests of genetically altered trees and other plants could sequester several billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year and so help ameliorate global warming, according to estimates published in the October issue of BioScience. // // The study, by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, outlines a variety of [...]
Propel Fuels, which wants to build 75 alternative fuel gas stations in California, unveiled one in Oakland yesterday, according to several news reports. The company already operates stations in Oakland and Seattle. One of the big problems with ethanol has been the availability of pumps dispensing E85, the 85 percent ethanol/15 percent gas blend. While [...]
Propel Fuels, which wants to build 75 alternative fuel gas stations in California, unveiled one in Oakland yesterday, according to several news reports. The company already operates stations in Oakland and Seattle. One of the big problems with ethanol has been the availability of pumps dispensing E85, the 85 percent ethanol/15 percent gas blend. While [...]
The retail giant’s 2,700 supercenters have a combined roof area that exceeds 500 million square feet — a blank slate that would make any solar installer or module maker salivate. Starting with twenty to thirty sites in California and Arizona, SolarCity will install MiaSolé CIGS and First Solar CdTe panels on these flat roofs. SolarCity [...]
Earth is now home to more than one billion vehicles. That number is expected to hit the two-billion mark within 15 years. In January 2009, more cars were sold in China than in the U.S. Dan Sperling spoke a bit about the future of automobiles at a VC summit hosted by Matt Trevithick of Venrock [...]
Yahoo will unveil a new data center in Lockport, New York tomorrow that boasts a power-use effectiveness (PUE) ratio of 1.08, which means that 92 percent of the power consumed by the data center goes toward computing functions. Only 8 percent goes to lights and operational equipment. Less than 1 percent of the power gets [...]
Helsinki — Later this week, the first servers in an experimental data center here that proponents say will be the world’s most energy efficient will go into their racks — and bigger plans are on the way. When formally launched in August, the data center will generate the equivalent of a megawatt of energy for [...]
Snippet from Earth911.com: 5. DIY lava lamp Now you don’t have to take a trip to that creepy Spencer’s store in the mall to go back to your teenage years. OK, we’ll admit that this design from Simple Earth Media doesn’t have the zing that your old $40 lamp had, but it’s no doubt a [...]
Biofuel producer Solazyme delivered 1,500 gallons of its algae-based jet fuel to the U.S. Navy’s testing and certification program today, helping the military reach its goal of switching half of its fleet to clean fuel by 2020. The Navy will use the fuel to power jets. Solazyme produces fuel by fermenting algae to create oils [...]
Global asset manager Schroders said investors should pay attention to businesses benefiting or likely to benefit from global efforts to ease or adapt to climate change – including companies in China. A China Daily report quoted Schroders as saying that climate change’s consequences will provide attractive investment opportunities, and that it sees China as today’s [...]