What would happen to your city if all the taps ran dry? We can’t survive without water, but water shortages will effect many of us in the future due to population growth, climate change and crumbling water networks.
Electricity infrastructure …
Sefaira just landed a $10.8 investment to harness cloud computing to crunch large amounts of building design data, allowing it to perform in minutes building design analyses which previously took days or weeks.
Designing zero-energy buildings, or retrofitting old ones, …
Formerly known as Powergetics, Stem emerged from stealth today to help businesses save energy. Stem uses a meter-like device that learns how a building uses energy over time and can predict an entire year’s worth of power use.
With smart …
If simple common sense can’t curb energy usage, perhaps a little peer pressure from Facebook friends will do the trick.
Facebook has joined forces with energy efficiency startup Opower and the National Resources Defense Council to release a social energy …
Sapphire Energy, a company that creates algae-based fuel, just announced a whopping $144 million in funding.
In recent years several startups have emerged to create fuel out of plant material, all hoping to lure people away from gasoline made from …
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …
Energy management systems startup Vigilent has raised a $6.7 million round of funding to optimize energy efficiency at data centers using the power of “big data,” the company announced Tuesday morning.
One huge problem companies struggle with when it comes …
Google released an annual energy report for its data centers Monday, claiming that by measuring energy consumption, its data centers are 50 percent more efficient than other companies’.
Tucked away in Douglas County, Georgia, next to a Six Flags theme …
Sponsored Post The Chevy Volt* is unique among electric cars because it runs on two sources of energy. You have an electric source – a battery – that allows you to drive gas-free for an EPA–estimated 35 miles.
The Cleantech Open, a competition that helps launch new green tech companies, held its launch event Friday night at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. The event brought together nine clean tech companies to exhibit their products or …
Two European researchers have discovered a way to turn waste from paper-making into a rechargeable battery cathode. The research could lead to cheaper, sustainable batteries made from a renewable source.
The news gets a bit technical and scientific, so stay …
Guest Post
We meet again, high gas prices. You seem to show up and eat my operating margins just when they pick up. And I always seem to forget how painful you are after you leave.
There are more than 10 million …
The Googleplex has its community bikes, NASA has golf carts, but the next wave in Silicon Valley on-campus transportation is a chauffeured electric vehicle you book on your iPhone.
Local Motion has built what it calls a “social vehicle,” which …
Intematix announced Tuesday it has raised a new round of funding to make LED lighting for homes, businesses, and other mainstream uses.
Light-emitting diodes (LED) have been making their way into our homes in computers, TVs, and other electronics for …
General Motors announced Friday it will temporarily shut down production of the Chevy Volt, its break-out electric car.
GM will also temporarily lay off 1,300 employees who work on the Volt’s production line between March 19 and April 23, Detroit …
Sprint, Brightstar Corporation, eRecyclingCorps, ModusLink Global Solutions and the CDMA Development Group are teaming up to create the Device Renewal Forum, a group that will encourage the recycling and reuse of cellphones and set technical standards for refurbished devices.
Most …
There are two major concerns when it comes to electric cars; how long they can drive without needing to stop for a charge and how much they cost. Envia, a lithium ion battery developer, hopes to eliminate both concerns with …
Blogger Michael DeGusta sparked a minor uproar in the electric vehicle community this week when he posted about the “devastating design flaw” that he said left many Tesla cars “bricked:” their batteries depleted, unable to move, with the only repair …
Flow-battery startup EnerVault announced a $15 million round of funding Thursday, which will help the company move forward with its first energy storage system installation.
Flow batteries aren’t well known, but they can be powerful energy storage devices. Instead of …
Hacker group Anonymous could have the power to take town the United States’ electrical grid this year, National Security Agency director General Keith Alexander believes.
Sources that spoke to the Wall Street Journal said the director admitted his concern over …
