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 [...]
Having worked with a client leading the way in high-brightness, high-performance LEDs, we know a little about the challenges of these breakthrough solid-state light sources. Namely, heat! For all the environmental benefits that accompany innovations in LED lighting, one challenge remains – keeping the applications cool and performance hot.
Today, start-up Progressive Cooling Solutions [...]
Slow wind has always presented a problem for wind turbine companies trying to get regular people like us to invest in their turbine technologies. Now, Michigan-based WindTronics has introduced a wind turbine designed for individual homes that it says it can operate at speeds as low at 2 miles per hour. The “wind turbine in [...]
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 [...]
In January, greentechmedia.com published a list of the “150 Solar Startups” – which consisted of privately held VC funded and early-stage solar firms. Within the five months since the list first appeared, the number of solar startups brought to their attention has increased so much that they’ve decided to issue an updated list with the [...]
We recently came across a cool start-up called GoLoCo, which is a social network that helps people arrange shared car trips among friends, neighbors and colleagues. The GoLoCo network uses a system of alerts to notify its members whenever friends or interest groups are going to places that they are interested in going to. You [...]
Is it a car? A golf cart? A people conveyer? In fact, this eco-friendly biodiesel vehicle may be the future mode of transportation for city dwellers. Developed by a team of 28 students from the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University, the Coda (its name refers to a musical term meaning “to go [...]