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Want to fill up your Volkswagen or Hummer on renewables, as Arnold Schwarzenegger does? Biodiesel, a vegetable-oil based variant on petroleum diesel, is your fuel. As we pointed out last week, the fuel doesn’t get as much attention as high-tech biofuels like cellulosic ethanol and “green” gasoline. However, substances called furanics may help bring biodiesel [...]
Ever since multi-billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens unveiled his grand energy plan for the United States last month, everyone with an ounce of skepticism has been wondering why he’s so bullish on using natural gas for transportation. True to form for the canny Texan, it soon emerged that he owns a refueling station business called [...]
A123 Systems files proposal for IPO — Lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems, which aims to sell into the electric vehicle market, has filed the initial registration statement required for an initial public offering. The number of shares to be sold or price has not yet been determined. Nokia opens research unit in Africa — Aiming [...]
Simbol Mining, a company that says it has a better way to collect the lithium used in today’s most advanced batteries, has taken a first round of funding. The idea of mining usually conjures up images of sweating, grime-encrusted men and earth-moving machines. What Simbol is aiming for more closely resembles running a water [...]
High oil prices have resonated through the economy at every level, and business travel is no exception. Realizing as much, I recently checked in with Cisco to see how well their telepresence product is selling. Telepresence, for those who haven’t encountered it, is “a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as [...]
Temperatures across the world could rise as much as 4 degrees centigrade this century, a new United Kingdom report claims, setting off a chain reaction of flooding, droughts and mass extinctions. Although it doesn’t sound like much, a 4C rise (about 6 degrees Fahrenheit) would be disastrous, in part because large structures like glaciers depend [...]
Biodiesel, a vegetable oil-based substitute for the regular petroleum-based diesel that trucks use, has had a tough time getting respect lately. Prices have shot up for biodiesel made from food oils from soybean, canola and palm, the last of which is environmentally damaging to farm. And like ethanol, biodiesel has been accused of pushing up [...]
While most agree that LEDs will someday replace compact fluorescents as the energy-efficient lights of choice for homes and businesses, that day often seems far off. LEDs, which emit light from a semiconductor chip instead of interaction with a gas, have always been bulky and expensive, and the illumination they give off isn’t exactly mood [...]
Over the past year, it has become difficult to read business news without finding a mention of how one company or another has launched a recycling initiative or installed solar panels. Motivations vary, but marketing departments long ago realized that going green generates good press. Enter Village Green Energy with a Facebook application it’s [...]
July was slowest for IPOs in five years — A measly 56 companies went public last month, raising $5.6 billion. Pretty depressing, compared to last year’s figure of 190 companies and $31.7 billion. This month is expected to be similarly slow, with a pickup coming late in the year or early next. From free [...]
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