July 20, 2008
Sunday

Clean Technology : News brief

Clean technology describes products or services that improve operational performance, productivity, or efficiency while reducing costs, inputs, energy consumption, waste, or pollution.
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Affordable Electric Car Beating Major Manufacturers to Market (news brief)

Organization:
Treehugger

Call it a do-it-yourself electric car. Do-it-yourself if you are steel magnate Barry D. Bernsten, who is investing his own millions in BG Automotive Group with the intention of bringing affordable electric cars to the American market. Bernsten's production plan is to bring 3-4000 units to market in 2008 and over 20,000 in 2009. Is Bernsten for real? And can he realize his goal to beat the major auto manufacturers to the market and put affordable electric cars on American highways?

Navitime Japan Launches Eco-route ASP Service (news brief)

Organization:
Treehugger

The service is designed to help corporations build applications for their websites to show customized transport routes, such as delivery routes and travel plans, in order to find the most environmentally friendly route and reduce CO2 emissions.

read more about Navitime here 

Duke Energy Expands Wind Portfolio With Purchase of Catamount (news brief)

Organization:
Treehugger

has expanded its renewable energy portfolio with the purchase of Rutland, Vermont’s Charlotte, North Carolina-based electric company Duke EnergyCatamount Energy Corp. Catamount Energy was formed in 1992, and since 2001 has been developing wind projects in the several US states, as well as in the United Kingdom. The acquisition is valued at $240 million, plus assumed debt.

MacBook Drinks Solar with Apple Juicz (news brief)

Organization:
EcoGeek
While Apple is greening up its laptops, it isn’t spitting out solar products yet. So, taking up the call, QuickerTek has put out an awesome new product specifically for Macophiliacs. Fitting the MacBook, a foldable sheet of thin-film solar cells can charge up your laptop.

Investment in Solar Cells to Equal Semiconductors by 2010 (news brief)

Organization:
Treehugger
Market research group iSuppli is reporting that worldwide investments in the production of solar cells will equal those for semiconductor manufacturing by 2010. Global production is expected to rise from 2007 levels of 3.5 GW to up to 12 GW in that time. Production lines capable of manufacturing 1 MW or more of PV cells will increase from the 90 to 100 which existed in 2007, to perhaps 400 by 2010. Factories capable of 1 GW of PV production annually also will be established in the future, the report says.

IBM Debuts Green Datacentre in a Box (news brief)

Organization:
BusinessGreen
IBM claims new datacentre designs will slash energy costs by up to 50 per cent compared to conventional server farms.

Coca-Cola to Deploy 100K HFC-Free Coolers (news brief)

Organization:
Greenbiz.com
Coca-Cola has spent about $40 million researching cleaner cooling technology.

Car Makers Stand by Green Claims (news brief)

Organization:
Greenbiz.com
Auto Express called into question the validity of the industry standard vehicle emissions tests

Green concerns dominate IT managers' thinking (news brief)

Organization:
Business Green
IT Week carried out a survey, questioning 620 UK IT managers on the biggest IT developments and issues from the past decade and what matters going forward.

BIOWAVE: Biomimicry Solution for Ocean Power Debuts in Australia (news brief)

Organization:
Inhabitat.com
BioPower Systems is currently testing a prototype unit of its new Biowave system, capable of producing 250kw which may some day provide power to Flinders and King islands, and in the future, if successful, the entire state of Victoria, home of the city of Melbourne, Australia.
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