They may have faded into the background (some pretty convincingly), but all those those cell sites require a lot of power!In his new Pike Research report, “How Mobile Networks Can Cut Carbon” (subscription required), Clint Wheelock finds that with a…
Startup Plans Wind-Powered Datacenter
Baryonyx, a Texas startup, is embarking on projects to build green datacenters and the wind farms to power them. Data Center Knowledge reports: Baryonyx plans to build a 28,000 square foot data center in Stratford, which will be powered by…
In Pictures: Retro-Green Technology
Deriving energy from the sun and wind may be sparking a technological revolution in the here and now, but it’s actually quite an old pursuit. This neat gallery at Guardian News celebrates those that came before. Worth a look!…
Cleantech News Roundup – Thursday, July 9
Rentech Completes Purchase Of SilvaGas Biomass Firm – CleanTechBrief Rentech plans to integrate SilvaGas’ technology, which converts a variety of biomass feedstocks into synthesis gas (syngas) with Rentech’s proprietary syngas conditioning and cleanup technology. As a result, Rentech will be…
Cleantech News Roundup – Wednesday, July 8
Pickens: World’s Biggest Wind Farm No Longer on Drawing Board – Greentech Media The oil tycoon has scrapped his plans for a 4-gigawatt wind farm in Texas, planning instead to build five or six much smaller wind farms using the…
Cleantech Roundup – Friday, June 12
Green Sector Growing Fastest – Pew Study – Sustainable Business Pew found that jobs in the clean energy economy grew at a national rate of 9.1%, while traditional jobs grew by only 3.7% between 1998 and 2007. There was a…
Cleantech News Roundup – Friday, June 5
Clean Energy Funding Trumps Fossil Fuels – Green Inc. – The New York Times Renewable sources accounted for 56 percent of investment dollars, worth $140 billion, while investment in fossil fuel technologies was $110 billion, the U.N. program said in…
Cleantech News Roundup – Thursday, June 4
Cleantech investing surpasses IT in Europe despite dip – VentureBeat Even though cleantech investing in Europe and Israel is down more than 30 percent from last year’s $1.8 billion, the sector is surpassing IT to become the second largest venture…
Cleantech News Roundup – Friday, May 22
Clean Energy and Intellectual Property – Green Inc. – The New York Times On Wednesday, that group and representatives of General Electric, Microsoft and Sunrise Solar gathered in Washington to launch the Innovation, Development & Employment Alliance, or I.D.E.A. The…
Cleantech News Roundup – Thursday, May 21
The Churchill Club’s 2009 Tech Trends: Energy, Data And More Energy – TechCrunch 6. Power and efficiency management services will see a flowering of investment and innovation — Crowd Idea The idea here is that energy going forward isn’t necessarily…
