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Waterpebble gets water-wasters out of the shower
by Leslie Katz: It's easy to lose track of how long your shower's getting--especially when it's 10 degrees out and the only thing that roused you from bed was the vision of a steamy cascade of water. Well, Waterpebble is here to guilt you out of your wasteful ways. The little round device monitors water going down the drain. It records the length of your first Waterpebble shower and uses that as a benchmark, then indicating via a series of gently flashing "traffic lights" when you need to get out of the shower already! Green tells ...
Tuning the energy innovation engine at MIT
by Martin LaMonica: BOSTON--The MIT Energy Conference here on Saturday covered a little bit of everything--"China speed," climate change, financing gaps, government policy, nuclear and natural gas, and, of course, science experiments--as entrepreneurs, business people, and academics tried to get their arms around big-picture energy challenges. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has become a hotbed for clean-energy innovation over the past four years, attracting students and faculty to the field, some of whom have spun out promising companies. At a showcase there, local companies and researchers working in wind, solar, biofuels, storage, and efficiency displayed ...
Eco-friendly garage opens in Boulder
BOULDER, Colo. - They'll change your oil, but the guys behind Boulder-based Green Garage are trying to change a lot more. For starters, they want to make auto services eco-friendly. " We recycle everything; the tires, the oil, the fuel," technician and self-professed 'car-hugger' Ernie Lavigne told us. They're trying to change the whole of idea of customer service in auto repair by coming to their customers' offices and homes to diagnose cars, and repair them while their customers are at work. And they want to completely overhaul what it means to get your car tunes up. ...
Green tech seeks its ‘Netscape moment’
by Martin LaMonica: NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--If you're wondering what the next big thing in green tech will be, this is a good place to look. The ARPA-E Summit, a conference designed to showcase potential breakthrough clean-energy technologies, started on Monday, attracting some 1,700 investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers all vying to reinvent the energy infrastructure to be cleaner and more efficient. Given the makeup of the group, the mood is optimistic that new technologies can shake up even the slow-moving energy business. At the conference, scientists and entrepreneurs showed off early-stage ideas, such as kinetic energy storage ...
SunPower sets 32 MW supply deal with Toshiba
NEW YORK (Reuters) - SunPower Corp said on Monday it has signed a supply agreement with Toshiba Corp to supply the Japanese company with 32 megawatts of solar panels this year. The deal, for which no financial details were released, will "form the cornerstone" of Toshiba's new residential solar offering in Japan, SunPower said in a release. SunPower is one of the world's largest producers of the solar photovoltaic equipment that turns sunlight into electricity, and its modules are among the most efficient in the industry. The Japanese solar market is expected to grow sharply in coming ...
Google develops prototype mirror for solar energy
Google has developed a prototype for a new mirror technology that could cut by half the cost of building a solar thermal plant, the company's green energy czar said on Friday. Bill Weihl said that if development and testing go well, he could see the product being ready in one to three years. "Things have progressed," Weihl said in an interview. "We have an internal prototype." Google has been looking at unusual materials for the mirror's reflective surface and the substrate on which the mirror is mounted. In solar thermal technology, the sun's energy is used to heat ...
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