Waltham Technologies Inc. was launched by biotech industry veteran Una Ryan with the aim of using blue-green algae to treat wastewater. A number of other clean energy companies are also using algae to dispose of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, but Waltham Technologies’ system not only cleans wastewater of contaminants, it creates a [...]
Companies are getting closer to commercializing “advanced biofuels” made from cellulose. What’s significant about these advanced biofuels is that they come from non-food crops such as grasses or from inedible parts of food crops (e.g. husks), so they don’t compete with food output. To spur the development of these next-gen biofuels, the U.S. government is [...]
Hara, a California startup founded by former executives from SAP and Oracle, has just rolled out a software-as-a-service offering designed to help large organizations reduce costs through better management of natural resources.
The Environmental and Energy Management system from Hara collects data about the resources consumed across an organization, including energy and water, as well as [...]
New Acquisition Brings Broadband to Smart Grid Communications
This week, Trilliant (Redwood, CA based smart meter solution provider) announced its purchase of SkyPilot which develops long-range, broadband wireless mesh technology based on a longer-range application of WiFi (up to ten miles).
According to the company’s release “SkyPilot has redefined broadband wireless through a patented system that achieves [...]