June 6, 2014
Tesla Wins Back The Right To Sell Direct To Consumers In New Jersey
Electric car company Tesla can now once again sell cars direct to consumers in New Jersey (via Engadget), after a ban earlier this year based on an old…
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May 31, 2014
This Algae Battery Could Power A Tesla With 200X The Charge
In a small lab, near a lake at the edge of West Berkeley, sits the prototype of what could revolutionize battery power as we know it. The secret…
Read articleMay 30, 2014
Spor Solar-Powered Battery Charger Wants To Kickstart A Cooler Clean-Energy Ecosystem
Spor is a portable solar-powered battery charger that wants to shake things up with its fuss-free, compact form factor that’s still capable of delivering a power punch. It’s…
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How Google Uses Machine Learning And Neural Networks To Optimize Data Centers
Google has released some new research about it efforts to maximize performance and minimize energy use at data centers through machine learning today. Long story short: Google is…
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Apple Patents Solar Panels Integrated Into Flexible Touch Displays
Apple has a new patent that could pave the way for future solar-powered mobile devices, according to AppleInsider. The new intellectual property describes a method for embedding a…
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Electric Cruisebeast Creator Elon Musk Tells The Oatmeal He’s “Happy To Help” Fund Tesla Museum
In one of the loveliest paeans to modern technology ever penned on the web, The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman posted a lengthy comic describing what it’s like to…
Read articleMay 5, 2014
Simply Grid Is Putting Clean, Easy Power Where People Need It
Power is readily available for most people in North America these days, which can make it hard to grasp how annoying it can be when it isn’t –…
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Ambri Raises $35 Million For A New Approach To Grid-Scale Power Storage
The use of renewable energy is growing in the U.S., but its adoption has put pressure on old, overtaxed power grids. The intermittency of wind and solar power…
Read articleApril 23, 2014
Google Commits $100M To Help Finance Residential Solar Installs With SunPower
Fresh off its agreement to purchase up to 407 MW of wind power for its Iowa data center, Google today announced that it has committed $100 million to…
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Google Signs A 407 MW Wind Energy Deal For Its Iowa Data Center
It’s Earth Day, so there isn’t a company on the Internet that isn’t trying to brandish its green image. Apple led the charge earlier this week and today,…
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