Residents in Florida — the fourth most populous state in America – are finding themselves in the midst of an energy crisis. With the demand for energy quickly outpacing the capacity to create it, researchers at Florida Atlantic University are turning to an alternative source – the ocean.
Scientists say the energy within the Gulf Stream’s [...]
It’s well known that the race is on to create viable sources of alternative-energy and a serious player in this sphere is the U.S. military.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – the Defense Dept. agency that helped invent the Internet – is setting its sights on cleantech by trying to change how both the [...]
This month, GreenTechMedia highlighted obsolete greentech concepts that are making a go of it…again.
In this really cool list, GreenTechMedia features sixteen ideas that are centuries old, but are experiencing a re-birth in today’s green technology startups. The old-school concepts include:
1. Mashed Earth (www.integrityblock.com)
2. Solar-Thermal Water Heaters (www.mondial-energy.com )
3. Solar Lighting (www.sunlight-direct.com )
4. The Opposed Piston/Opposed Cylinder Engine (www.achatespower.com , [...]
GreenRay Inc., a Massachusetts-based startup working to develop affordable solar energy for the residential market, announced this week that it has completed its Series A financing round. The $2 million investment will enable GreenRay to rapidly move ahead with manufacturing, distribution channel development, and commercial launch.
Founded in 2006, GreenRay develops solar AC modules with fewer [...]
TRENDnet, a global provider of networking solutions for small and medium size business and home users, has recently launched a line of desktop switches which feature the company’s environmentally friendly embedded GREENnet technology.
The GREENnet switch-based technology reduces power consumptions by supplying the appropriate amount of electrical power to each hardwired switching port as required by [...]
Listed by BusinessWeek as #1 out of the top 20 most important technologies of the next 10 years, it looks like ocean tidal power is finally becoming a reality
With all the progress solar panels and wind turbines have made to date, tidal-generated energy sources, arguably the world’s most dependable, predictable and largest untapped renewable [...]
This week Greetechmedia updated their list of the number solar start-ups to a whopping 217!
We all know that green energy is hot – but looking at GreenTechMedia’s Senior Analyst Eric Wesoff’s list of new solar startups (privately held companies with a focus on VC-funded or pre-VC startups) we are are left to wonder just [...]