News tagged with cleaning technology
Goldman to plow $40 bn into green energy
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs plans to invest $40 billion into projects linked to renewable energy over the next decade, a company spokesman said Thursday.
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May 25, 2012 |
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California leads green tech funding, reduces greenhouse emissions
California has had remarkable success in developing and deploying clean technology, using it to help fuel the state's economic rebound and drive its effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, even as its population continues ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 16, 2012 |
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Beijing auto show to unveil cleaner cars
Carmakers at the Beijing auto show are due to unveil scores of clean energy vehicles as they try to convince Chinese customers to swap gas-guzzling SUVs for cleaner but slower and pricier options.
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Apr 23, 2012 |
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Amazon, Apple, Twitter score low on clean energy: study
Amazon, Apple and Twitter were graded poorly Tuesday in a Greenpeace study of technology titans' use of clean energy to power the mushrooming Internet cloud, but Facebook, Google and Yahoo! won praise.
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Apr 17, 2012 |
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Clean energy could lead to scarce materials
As the world moves toward greater use of low-carbon and zero-carbon energy sources, a possible bottleneck looms, according to a new MIT study: the supply of certain metals needed for key clean-energy technologies.
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Climate: Nine bids to host future technology centre
Plans for a global centre to help transfer clean technology to poorer countries have drawn nine bids, including from Iran's oil industry and a team led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the UN climate forum said on ...
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Obama calls for investment in clean energy
US President Barack Obama called on Congress Saturday to invest more money in clean energy technologies and end multi-billion-dollar subsidies given each year to oil companies.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 10, 2012 |
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Venture capital investments up 19 percent in 4Q
(AP) -- Funding for startups rose 19 percent in the fourth quarter as venture capitalists fueled money into more companies in the Internet, clean technology and other sectors.
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Berkeley Lab seeks to help US assert scientific leadership in critical materials
A few short decades ago, few could have imagined that the world would be seriously concerned over something called dysprosium. Also known as number 66 on the periodic table, dysprosium was once just another element for chemistry ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Facebook, Greenpeace in truce over data centers
(AP) -- Facebook and Greenpeace have called a truce over a clean energy feud that had the environmental group using the social network's own platform to campaign against it.
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Dec 15, 2011 |
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Philippine solar light bottles offer hope
Filipino entrepreneur Illac Diaz is aiming to help a million poor people in a year, and with the help of some plastic bottles and a clever social media campaign may do even better.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Researchers draft blueprint to boost energy innovation
The U.S. government could save the economy hundreds of billions of dollars per year by 2050 by spending a few billion dollars more a year to spur innovations in energy technology, according to a new report by researchers ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 22, 2011 |
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New wind-energy label gains Deutsche Bank support
Deutsche Bank and a handful of other global firms pledged on Friday to get at least 25 percent of their energy from wind.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 18, 2011 |
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South Africa gets $250mn loan for wind, solar power
South Africa signed a $250-million (183-million-euro) loan deal with the World Bank on Monday aimed at adding 200 Megawatts of solar and wind power to the coal-dependent country's grid.
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Nov 14, 2011 |
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How energy analysis can create more bang for the energy research buck
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are working on a wide variety of clean energy technologies—from biofuels to batteries to solar energy—but now these disparate efforts ...
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Nov 02, 2011 |
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