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 [...]
The iconic Sears Tower in Chicago is set to receive a $350 million green renovation. Wind turbines, roof gardens and solar panels are anticipated to reduce the tower’s electricity use by 80 percent and save 24 million gallons of water a year, according to building owners and architects. There are also plans to add a [...]
IBM has created the new Aquasar supercomputer which uses water to siphon off waste heat, and then uses the excess energy to warm up a building. Developed jointly by IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the Aquasar’s microchips avoid cooling with energy-intensive air conditioning by using water to transfer heat away from the chips. A network of water-carrying [...]
QD Vision, Inc, based in Watertown, MA, delivers a new generation of display and lighting solutions that require less energy. QD Vision’s Quantum Light™ platform promises to offer unparalleled color and brightness and require less power than current-generation LED technologies. How do they do this? QD uses quantum dot (QD) films to generate tunable white [...]
Industry leaders got together lat week at ConnectivityWeek, a collection of events that focus on the application of Information Technology and energy challenges as they relate to the need for better sustainability. The group includes representatives from utilities, manufacturers, and communications technologies working together on issues related to smart grids, smart devices, and smart [...]
With many telecom companies committed to carbon reduction, their anticipated growth in coming years will mean an increasing reliance on “green” network equipment.
Companies are shifting to more efficient base and switching centers and handsets that consume less electricity. Cell phone companies including Sony-Ericsson, Sharp, and Sprint are introducing energy saving handsets and other eco-options.
For mobile [...]
With an average life expectancy of 600 years “virtually every piece of modern fishing line that has ever been lost is still out there” – that’s millions of yards of line causing unfathomable destruction of marine mammals and bird life. A new product called Bioline, biofilament™ addresses this problem. The line, available in [...]