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View ArticleAmazon quietly commits to 100% clean energy for AWS, but gives no details
Is Amazon coming around to clean power for Amazon Web Services?
View ArticleElon Musk: Tesla can make a few million cars a year by 2025
Electric car company Tesla's stated long-term goal has been to make 500,000 electric cars a year by 2020, but on Tuesday at the Detroit Auto Show, Tesla CEO Elon Musk raised…
View ArticleLooking for a job? Try the solar industry
The growth rate for jobs in the solar industry last year was almost 20 times higher than the national average employment growth rate in the U.S., according to a new report…
View ArticleSwitch to build huge data center near Tesla battery factory
The stretch of land that will house Tesla's new massive battery factory just outside of Reno, Nevada, will become home to another very large customer: what's being billed as the world's…
View ArticleWhere the clean energy money flowed last year
New investments in clean energy -- from project financing to government funding to VC -- rebounded in 2014 to $310 billion invested globally, just shy of the annual global record for…
View ArticleSpecial report: How the rise of a mega solar panel farm shows us the future...
After about an hour of weaving up and down the winding, mountainous, two-lane highway that is route 58, eastbound from San Luis Obispo, I honestly started to wonder where 9 million…
View ArticleAmazon to power cloud with wind farm in Indiana
Following Amazon's quiet commitment to use 100 percent clean energy for its AWS cloud, on Tuesday Amazon announced that it will support the construction and operation of a wind farm in Benton…
View ArticleBloom Energy piles on even more funding
Silicon Valley fuel cell startup Bloom Energy is looking to raise another $160 million in convertible notes, and has closed on $130 million of that round, according to a report in…
View ArticleMoth eyes inspire scientists to cut reflection on solar panels
The eyes of the common moth have led to a novel discovery that could boost the efficiency of solar panels. Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a way to create…
View ArticleFord opens computing lab to focus on self-driving cars and data
Car giant Ford held the grand opening for its new Silicon Valley research center on Thursday. There, the company will work on the future of digital technologies for its cars, from…
View ArticleThe Silicon Valley lab is officially a defensive strategy
"Is Ford cool?" asked a curt tech reporter during the auto company's grand opening of its new computing-focused Silicon Valley center in Palo Alto, California on Thursday. The reporter likely meant:…
View ArticleAn increasingly rare type of solar farm goes online in California
When the huge solar farm just outside of Las Vegas called Ivanpah opened up in early 2014, many lamented that this type of solar plant, called solar thermal, could soon become…
View ArticleInvestors back startup that sells offgrid battery & solar panels
Batteries paired with solar panels aren't just intriguing customers in the U.S., Europe and Japan looking to ditch their utilities. People are slowly adopting batteries and solar panels in offgrid...
View ArticleThis is Tesla’s first battery swap station (photos)
Last month Tesla announced that it would soon start trialing its first battery swap station in private beta to invited customers, next to its super charger station at Harris Ranch in…
View ArticleInventor Dean Kamen wants you at his robot competitions
Dean Kamen -- the inventor of countless tech products, holder of 440 patents, and probably most famous for his creation of the Segway -- is "scared shitless" about the lack of…
View ArticleBehind the scenes of Otherlab & its soft robots, exoskeletons & intestine tanks
In the 1890s, a former gold miner and inventor set up shop in a building on 19th Street in San Francisco to manufacture a next-generation ultra efficient water wheel. Lester Pelton,…
View ArticleApple to build $2B solar-powered “command center” data center at Arizona...
The question of what Apple plans to do with its factory in Mesa, Arizona, which it was going to lease to now-bankrupt former partner and sapphire glass maker GT Advanced Technologies,…
View ArticleThis Berkeley startup & its energy machines are about to take off
A decade ago the sprawling artist compound just off of Ashby Avenue in an industrial part of West Berkeley, Calif, was filled with flame-throwing robots, stacks of shipping containers and towering…
View ArticleWhy Chile has emerged as a big solar market
It might surprise you to learn that Latin America -- including Mexico, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean -- was the region that showed the fastest growth in history for…
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