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What makes IBM's 'green' data center tick
CNET News' Martin LaMonica gets a tour of IBM's lab for green IT where the data center uses networked sensors and liquid cooling to ...
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Tesla Test Drive: Time to Try an American Car?
MoneyWatch picked six American cars to check out now. The sleekest of the bunch is the new Tesla Roadster, which does zero to 60 ...
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The new eco-friendly Samsung Reclaim
Natali Del Conte shows us the new eco-friendly Samsung Reclaim from the product launch in New York.
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How does a solar cell work?
How does solar conversion work now and how do we want it to work in the future? Paul Altivisatos, interim director for Lawrence Berkeley ...
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What drives solar stocks?
At the Intersolar Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Vishal Shah, solar equities research analyst at Barclays Capital, predicted that the U.S. ...
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Opportunities for investing in solar technology
At the Intersolar Conference in San Francisco, Scott Stephens, Photovoltaic Specialist for the U.S. Department of Energy, explains why he's optimistic about the future. ...
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Capital flowing into green
At Greentech Media's Green Building Summit in Menlo Park, Calif., Cascadia Capital CEO Michael Butler discusses three subsectors of the green-building industry that recently ...
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Who will manage the smart grid?
At Greentech Media's Green Building Summit at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., tech executives discuss the future management of smart-grid technology and whether ...
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Speeding up construction on ‘green’ homes
At Greentech Medias Green Building Summit at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., Serious Material Chairman Marc Porat discusses the challenges associated with building ...
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Tech execs talk smart design for ‘green’ buildings
At Greentech Medias Green Building Summit at SRI International, in Menlo Park, Calif., tech executives discuss what is needed to construct and design "green" ...
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Tomorrow's smart grid
At the Churchill Club's 11th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends, venture capitalists discuss whether the smart grid and smart meter trends will continue to ...
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The future of clean-tech investing
At the Greentech Media and Groom Energy, Enterprise Carbon Accounting Summit in Burlingame, Calif., venture capitalists discuss the outlook of investing in smart grids, ...
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Counting carbon to find bottom-line benefits
What could your business do better? At the Greentech Media and Groom Energy, Enterprise Carbon Accounting Summit in Burlingame, Calif., panelists explain what "The ...
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E-motorcycle hits S.F. streets
CNET News reporter Mats Lewan takes the brand new Zero S electric motorcycle for a test drive in downtown San Francisco. Currently, electric scooter-style ...
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'60 Minutes': Powered by coal
Coal is America's most abundant and cheapest fossil fuel but, as Scott Pelley reports, burning it happens to be the biggest contributor to global ...
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The Green Enterprise: HP
Hewlett-Packard plans to cut its global energy use 20 percent by 2010. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at "green" strategies the company is implementing to ...
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Revving up the electric-car industry
At the Green:Net conference in San Francisco, John Clark of GridPoint and Richard Lowenthal of Coulomb Technologies discuss how the largest obstacle for next-generation ...
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Getting green consumers to take action
At the Green: Net '09 conference in San Francisco, Erin Carlson, director of Yahoo for Good, breaks down the demographics of green-minded consumers who ...
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What is the smart grid?
At the Green: Net '09 Conference in San Francisco, Jesse Berst, managing director of Global Smart Energy, breaks the smart grid down into three ...
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From Internet to enternet, creating the energy network
At the Green: Net '09 Conference in San Francisco, Bob Metcalfe, a general partner at Polaris Venture Partners, explained how Washington actually helped the ...
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The lightbulb of the future?
Silicon Valley's Luxim has developed a lightbulb the size of a Tic Tac that gives off as much light as a streetlight. News.com's Michael Kanellos talks to the company about its technology and its plans to expand into various markets.
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Fill your car for $1.10 a gallon?
Menlo Park, Calif.'s ZeaChem has come up with a way to turn wood chips into ethanol that will sell for around $1.10 a gallon or less when it comes out in 2010. Brewing and petrochemical technology go into the mix. News.com Editor at Large Michael Kanellos talks with founder Dan Verser and CEO James Imbler about their plans for cheap fuel.
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The future, reusable paper
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Las Vegas, Steve Hoover, vice president with Xerox Research Center Webster, shows off a technology being developed in the company's labs that enables people to reuse a piece of paper. The paper contains a photochromic compound that makes ink disappear when hit by direct heat.
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Tesla Test Drive: Time to Try an American Car?
MoneyWatch picked six American cars to check out now. The sleekest of the bunch is the new Tesla Roadster, which does zero to 60 in under four seconds.
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How does a solar cell work?
How does solar conversion work now and how do we want it to work in the future? Paul Altivisatos, interim director for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at UC Berkeley, explains how a solar cell works and how the solar energy of the future, via a solar fuel generator that converts energy the same way plants do, can become more efficient. He says that rather than looking for what's next, he looks to the end result--an ideal usage for materials.
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The new eco-friendly Samsung Reclaim
Natali Del Conte shows us the new eco-friendly Samsung Reclaim from the product launch in New York.
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E-motorcycle hits S.F. streets
CNET News reporter Mats Lewan takes the brand new Zero S electric motorcycle for a test drive in downtown San Francisco. Currently, electric scooter-style and offroad bikes can be used on the streets. But the Zero S can reach up to 60 mph, and its creator, Zero Motorcycles, says it's the first electric high-performance street motorcycle that's ready to ship.
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What makes IBM's 'green' data center tick
CNET News' Martin LaMonica gets a tour of IBM's lab for green IT where the data center uses networked sensors and liquid cooling to lower energy use.
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The Green Enterprise: Cisco
Networking giant Cisco Systems has a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its operations by 25 percent in the next four years--with the help of technologies it's created. Cisco also wants to help customers do the same. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at green innovations at Cisco, including: an HD video-conferencing system, energy-efficient data centers, and a new office environment that encourages employees to work from unassigned spaces.
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Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel
At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Peter Bell, co-founder of Renewable Fuel Products, explains that his company's reactors are small and mobile enough to be loaded onto the back of a truck and taken wherever the waste oil is being created. They process an end product that can be used wherever people use diesel, with no special modifications. Through money from carbon credits, he says that developing countries will soon be able to gain access to this reactor as well.
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San Jose mayor announces 'green' award recipients
At a press conference in San Jose, Calif., Mayor Chuck Reed announces the winners of the inaugural Green Vision Innovation awards. The awards are designed to motivate companies to set up clean-tech businesses in the city of San Jose, bringing new green jobs with them.
Female Speaker: The city of San Jose wants to be the center of Green Tech for companies in Silicon Valley. San Jose's Mayor Chuck Reed recently talked about the city's green strategy and announced the winners of its inaugural Green Vision Innovation awards. ZDNet also spoke with some of the award recipients about what they're doing in the area of clean-tech.
Male Speaker 1: A little over a year ago, the council adopted San Jose's green vision which is our road map to becoming the world's center of clean-tech innovation. We have 10 long term goals spread out over 15-year time period. One of those goals and my favorite goal is the creation of 25,000 clean-tech jobs. We've had some great success in that in San Jose already. We have approximately 3,000 clean-tech jobs in the city. Today we've had companies like NanoSolar, SoloPower, Stion SVTC, and Underwriters Laboratories locating in San Jose in the solar industry and other clean tech companies here, not the least to which is not yet here, but Tesla Motors of course has announced that they're going to build a factory -- move their headquarters to San Jose creating a thousand jobs, clean-tech jobs in Tesla Motors and a couple of thousand other vendors and suppliers jobs. So we've had some good progress, but we got to keep growing these companies. We have to have new companies, new ideals, new technologies, new innovations that have come to fruition and that's why we got engaged in the clean tech open. I have six companies, six divisions, six winners and if you're here, wave, so the media knows who you are so that they can talk to you. Renewable fuel technologies, BottleStone, ElectraDrive, Power Assure, Over the Moon and Focal Point Energy. Congratulations to all of you.
Male Speaker 2: We produce, market a solid fuel that we call BioCoal. And we make BioCoal from the biomass and then we sell that BioCoal to industrial plants -- coal burning industrial plants. And the advantage of our BioCoal over a traditional fossil fuel is that it has low emissions, much lower emissions, no mercury, no sulfur. It also is renewable and it's carbon natural. So, you switch over to our fuel from fossil fuel, you'll convert coal burning industrial plants to something that's renewable and carbon neutral and carbon emissions.
Male Speaker 3: Power Assure is a software company that creates energy efficiency in data centers. We can save up to 50% in data centers and their energy consumption by modulating facilities and IT equipment to work together.
Male Speaker 4: Well, we hope to make a big change. ElectraDrive is all about converting existing vehicles to electric tractions. So, we will take any existing vehicles that's gas powered and with our ElectraMount technology, we will convert it to a plug in. So, what we actually do is we take out the existing gas drive train, we put in our ElectraMount which is an adjustable component frame that will fit any size engine bay, any size vehicle and then we will put in the best of three components: the battery, the motor and the gen set and convert a car into and efficient electric vehicle.





























