• How to End Your Fight with Inflating Energy Bills

    Updated: 2011-12-31 00:22:25
    While using low-energy appliances has helped to reduce the amount of electricity that American homes consume, those savings are offset by an increased use of electronics, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The EIA predicts that worldwide, energy consumption will increase by 40% by 2035. Energy rates are rising too, up 20% from 2005. [...]

  • Global Photovoltaics: The Little Engine That Could

    Updated: 2011-12-27 19:10:25
    : Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us It’s A Nano World Global Photovoltaics : The Little Engine That Could On December 27, 2011, in Blog by admin When Ron Pernick co-founded the green-tech market research company Clean Edge back in 2000, he made a bold prediction . By 2010, he said , solar power would be a 23.5 billion . industry To say that Pernick’s prediction was greeted with skepticism is somewhat of an understatement . In 2000, sales of photovoltaics PVs totaled 2.5 billion , worldwide . Pernick himself , who at the time , had already been an accomplished market researcher for over a

  • The first devices with mango update in September already

    Updated: 2011-12-24 18:08:59
    The first devices with mango update in September already In a direct comparison with the two dominant mobile operating systems from Apple and iOS Google’s Android, Microsoft could keep up with its Windows Mobile smartphones is not quite. When it comes to the management of the company, this could change with the release of “Mango”. [...]

  • How Utilities Gamble with Your Rates: 5 Ways to Protect Yourself

    Updated: 2011-12-22 20:18:39
    From about 1980 to 2005, electricity rates remained fairly flat, even though our consumption of it increased. But all of that changed after 2005, however, when rates rose by 20 percent. Americans are consuming more electricity than ever, and by 2035, the Energy Information Administration predicts that electric consumption will rise by another 40 percent. [...]

  • It’s A Nano World

    Updated: 2011-12-19 14:04:53
    Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us Shale Gas Poses Financial Threat to Clean Tech It’s A Nano World On December 19, 2011, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi For the uninitiated , nanotechnology” refers to the science of the very small , engineering particles and their corresponding materials at the nanometer scale . For a sense of perspective , at one-billionth of a meter , a nanometer is about 1 60,000 of the width of a human hair , so we’re talking engineering not just at the microscopic scale , but the electron-microscopic . scale Why bother Because researchers from across a number of

  • Intel aims for small companies to manufacture ultrabooks

    Updated: 2011-12-16 08:08:16
    The ultrabooks were much worse than previously thought. The reality is that it is a format that promised a lot. Come on, fast computers at prices that were supposed to be more significant and famous companies, as we know, make products that, at least, are worth paying attention. Well, it was not. Sales are rojísimos [...]

  • Shale Gas Poses Financial Threat to Clean Tech

    Updated: 2011-12-15 14:45:47
    Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us Shale gas drives oil gas spread to a new record Shale Gas Poses Financial Threat to Clean Tech On December 15, 2011, in Blog by Bill Paul By Bill Paul What a coincidence that as ExxonMobil’s interest in shale gas grows , the company declares , in its latest long-term energy forecast , that it has seen the future and it is natural gas . Or as the Wall Street Journal put it , Exxon Declares Gas King” Every clean tech advocate and investor should beware this statement and others like it that fossil fuel’ers like Daniel Yergin have recently made because it

  • Shale gas drives oil / gas spread to a new record

    Updated: 2011-12-14 00:07:01
    Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us The State of Cleantech Venture Capital Shale Gas Poses Financial Threat to Clean Tech Shale gas drives oil gas spread to a new record On December 14, 2011, in Blog by Mark Henwood On January 13, 1994 the ratio( of the price of oil to the price of natural gas was 1.14.   Today it hit a record high over this period of 5.26.   Gas traded at 3.28 today , just 21 of the 15.38 mmBtu it traded for on December 13, 2005.   Shale gas is providing gas in volume at moderate cost driving this record high price . disparity IMO , the impact of moderately priced gas

  • Bluetooth keyboard with ten years of independence with a new Broadcom chip

    Updated: 2011-12-13 21:59:54
    Broadcom, a company especially known for its wireless chips Wi-Fi for PCs and smartphones, is a manufacturer of semiconductors of different uses, from wireless devices mentioned SoCs solutions to embed. The firm today announced a new Bluetooth chip with an unprecedented energy efficiency in this type of equipment. The chip is specially designed for use [...]

  • Freecom Silver Store 2 – easy reached by its own cloud

    Updated: 2011-12-13 21:59:53
    A NAS device with the right built-in features can make your data accessible at a distance without having to have another computer running at home. We have previously looked at such as Netgear Large or Myditto. Freecom Silver Store 2 works in much the same way as Netgear Large. You give your device a unique [...]

  • Sealed Batteries: Are They Really Sealed?

    Updated: 2011-12-12 00:45:48
    New batteries are advertised as sealed. So why do they need venting?

  • EV Companies Need to Douse the Fire Issue

    Updated: 2011-12-05 00:34:26
    Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us Predictions For Cleantech In 2012 The State of Cleantech Venture Capital EV Companies Need to Douse the Fire Issue On December 5, 2011, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi Long a dream of environmentalists , and long a laughing-stock among car enthusiasts because of lame designs e.g . GM’s EV1 and a long litany of goofy looking vehicles that look like a cross-breed between golf carts and toys electric vehicles EVs are finally starting to make a real impact in the mass-market auto marketplace . Of all the electric vehicles , the most prominent is the Chevy Volt

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