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Green Tech News Microsoft?s Windows Phone lead Terry Myerson takes our Top Mobile Mover prize VentureBeat is pleased to announce the winner of the first-ever Top Mobile Mover award: Terry Myerson, the corporate vice president at Mi...
Blue Marble Ventures — Igniting Green/Clean Technologies and Bus
Redpoint Ventures said Tuesday it has closed Redpoint IV, a $400 million focused on early stage companies. The fund will invest in "social and mobile Internet, cloud computing and clean technology." So if you’ve got a mobile applications that helps your friends use less carbon, you might want to give Redpoint a call. Past investments include smart phone maker Danger, MySpace, and TiVo.
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Modular Wind develops innovative blades for wind turbines. The team is leveraging its aerospace expertise to design and manufacture new blades for the wind turbine market. Modular Wind’s blades require far less capital expenditure than current blades, are easier to transport, and are more structurally sound.
Why Cloud Computing Leaders Need to Demand Clean Power
The launch of Apple’s iPad this weekend represents a lot of firsts for the tech industry: a device with some of the most media attention of all time, and the start of an $8 billion tablet application market . But the iPad also represents one of a wave of media-consuming mobile devices that increasingly depends on “the cloud” — basically the Internet and data centers — to deliver hosted services and digital content, and will help contribute to a massive growth in energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with so-called cloud-computing over the coming years. According to a report published Tuesday from the environmental researchers at Greenpeace , the energy consumption and carbon emissions of cloud computing are already significantly higher than previously thought.iPod Creator Ditches Apple for Greentech
Green technology will soon be getting a player with a pedigree born out of one of the most successful gadgets of all time. Tony Fadell, one of the original developers of the iPod at Apple tells the New York Times that he will be leaving the company to pursue advising and investing in consumer-focused green technology companies. Welcome! The world of greentech sorely needs top-notch consumer-focused design, and more innovation to draw disinterested consumers into the fray. As Joel Makower put it in a blog post this week looking back on the 20-year anniversary of his book The Green Consumer , one thing that hasn’t changed over the last two decades has been the green consumer itself: “[T]here don’t seem to be that many more than today in 1990, in terms of people making significant changes to their shopping and consuming habits in ways that move markets toward greener products and services, never mind actually ‘saving the earth.’”
Business groups lobby against DWP surcharge | 89.3 KPCC
Powerful business groups have played a key role in opposing Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's proposed 2.7 cent per-kilowatt-hour power rate increase over the next year, which included a "carbon reduction surcharge." Carol Shatz of the downtown Central City Association could be seen lobbying the City Council to oppose the plan, which could raise power bills for businesses by more than 20 percent.Google has acquired a company that has created a new process for highly efficient isotope separation, we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. The primary use of this technology, say experts we’ve spoken with, is uranium enrichment. Enriched uranium is a necessary ingredient in the creation of nuclear energy, and one source we’ve spoken with at Google says that this is part of the Google Green Initiative .
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Ford Motor and Microsoft are collaborating on software for consumers to manage how and when to charge electric vehicles. Executives from both companies at the New York Auto Show on Wednesday announced that drivers of Ford's electric cars will use Microsoft Hohm, a Web-based home energy management application. The 2011 electric Ford Focus will be the first car to use Hohm, which company executives said will let consumers take advantage of cheaper electricity rates. That will also help utilities manage the added load of electric vehicles which can be substantial if many people in a neighborhood charge up at once. "Ford and Microsoft both believe that electric vehicles will be the driving force around how people think about energy usage and energy conservation," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who spoke at the press conference via a video link. "Managing energy in a smart way down to everyday consumers is absolutely going to be critical."
Ford taps Microsoft Hohm for electric-car charging | Green Tech
“This device is laughably absurd,” goes a typical remark on a tech blog’s comments board. “How can they expect anyone to get serious computer work done without a mouse?” “This truly is a magical revolution,” goes another. “I can’t imagine why anyone will want to go back to using a mouse and keyboard once they’ve experienced Apple’s visionary user interface!”
State of the Art - David Pogue’s Review of the iPad - NYTimes.co
French-Japanese allies Renault and Nissan, and German automaker Daimler AG, have a deal in the works to cooperate on development of hybrid and electric vehicle tech, and to share platforms for small cars. And according to multiple reports today, the trio will announce a final agreement on the long discussed tie-up as early as Wednesday. Given the Renault-Nissan Alliance’s aggressive investments in the electric vehicle and battery market (they’re aiming for nothing less than domination of the global EV market), combined with Daimler’s engineering expertise and investments in electric car startup Tesla Motors and battery maker Evonik, how might a Renault-Nissan-Daimler alliance shape the nascent market for plug-in vehicles?
Daimler-Renault Deal: Birth of an 800-Pound Green Car Gorilla?
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Once you meet the magician who has the patents, you will change your mind. James Tracy, founder of Pure Power Corporation is the man behind the curtain whose clean energy technology may just rock the world. Sooner than one might guess. James Tracy, from Pure Power Inc., measures a metal base before placing it under a quartz container inside a microwave during a plasma demonstration at Enid News & Eagle. When James Tracy was 17 he signed up to be a science aide at school. That's when the science bug bit him, and he's been fascinated ever since.1-877-SKY-7707 Green Technology Experts - (Build 20100401064631)
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RELEASE : 10-33AR NASA Announces A New Approach To Earth Science Data Analysis MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – The way we analyze planet Earth will never be the same, thanks to a new initiative at NASA that integrates supercomputers with global satellite observations and sophisticated models of the Earth system in an online collaborative environment. As part of its celebration of Earth Week, NASA unveiled the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) at a “Green Earth” public forum held at the NASA Exploration Center, Moffett Field, Calif. By making NEX available, NASA expects to better enable scientists to collaboratively conduct research and address the impacts of changes in climate and land use patterns on ecosystems. NEX will link NASA’s supercomputing resources with massive Earth system data sets, and provide a collection of tools for analysis and visualization.