Archive for ‘Energy’
Car makers rethinking strategy for 2008
January 9th, 2008
German car makers are rethinking their model strategies for 2008 amid a new car sales slump and the growing image problems faced by performance cars with high carbon dioxide emissions.
Popularity: 5%
Power On-the-go: Solar Backpack Charges Gadgets
January 9th, 2008
Voltaic Systems has unveiled their solar backback and briefcase, a device to charge laptops and other electronic gadgets.
Popularity: 4%
Green Technology at CES
January 8th, 2008
Stacey Delo takes a look at some green-friendly products at CES, including solar-paneled backpacks, hydrogen technology and bioplastics.
Popularity: 3%
Insurers paying to rebuild greener homes
January 8th, 2008
Sean Walsh returned to his mother’s San Diego home after the October wildfires to find it charred to its foundation. He says he plans to help her rebuild the trilevel, five-bedroom abode — happily used to host 19 grandkids — exactly as it was, only greener.
Popularity: 3%
China seen surging to top wind turbine maker in 09
January 8th, 2008
China will leap to be the top wind turbine producer in 2009, transforming an already fast-growing renewable energy sector, a leading wind power industry official said.
Popularity: 3%
One Family Goes Green With Biodiesel
January 8th, 2008
Family goes green with biodiesel.
Popularity: 5%
Pros and cons of Tata’s $2,500 People’s Car
January 8th, 2008
India’s Tata Motors Ltd unveils the world’s cheapest car in New Delhi on Thursday. Dubbed the “People’s Car”, it will sell for about $2,500 and should be in dealers’ showrooms by September.
Popularity: 7%
At last tech industry takes energy-saving seriously
January 7th, 2008
A recent report by the US government estimated that the server farms that power the internet in the US consume more than 3.3 billion dollars in energy every year.
Popularity: 3%
Japan, U.S., EU eye new energy-saving body -report
January 6th, 2008
Japan, the United States and the European Union will jointly propose the creation of a new body to act as an international command centre in efforts to counter global warming, a leading Japanese daily said on Sunday.
Popularity: 3%
Democratic presidential contenders on energy
January 6th, 2008
Two of the top Democratic presidential contenders weighed in on the issue of how to limit emissions of carbon dioxide, a gas associated with climate change, during a debate Saturday.
Popularity: 2%
German ban on polluting cars
January 4th, 2008
German cities are taking action against car pollution aiming to ban dirty and polluting vehicles.
Popularity: 4%
German car sales slump, but exports hit record high
January 3rd, 2008
German car sales slumped 9 per cent in 2007 to their lowest level since the nation’s historic unification more than 17 years ago, data released Thursday showed, as soaring energy prices and an unpopular tax rise hit the auto sector.
Popularity: 2%
Europe Looks to Alternative Energy
January 2nd, 2008
Concerns about climate change have led to increased interest in renewable energy sources, particularly the use of bio fuels.
Popularity: 4%
EERC works on jet fuel alternative
January 1st, 2008
It’s a program that aims to make jet fuel…out of things like vegetable oilright here in North Dakota. Tucked away in the heart of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks is the Energy and Environmental Research Center.
Popularity: 2%
Times Square Ball Drop Goes Green
December 31st, 2007
Time Square ball drop goes green.
Popularity: 4%
