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Nissan Motor Co took the wraps off its much-awaited electric car on Sunday, naming the hatchback “Leaf” and taking a step toward its goal of leading the industry in the zero-emissions field. Japan’s No.3 automaker and its French partner, Renault SA, have been the most aggressive proponents of pure electric vehicles in the auto industry, announcing [...]

Honda’s hybrid strategy is always fascinating. The company roiled Toyota by disrupting its serene 2010 Prius launch with news that its Insight four-seater would retail for less than $20,000, forcing Toyota to delay Prius pricing. Honda has always said it was aiming to put a whole field of hybrids on the market, and now it’s following [...]

Zurich, Switzerland – Aiming to cut emissions from data centers, IBM has unveiled a new high performance computer that uses water for cooling. The Aquasar supercomputer will be located at the ETH Zurich facility, and it will start operations next year, the partners said in an announcement on Tuesday. The supercomputer will combine two rack-mounted IBM BladeCenter [...]

Last year, IBM said that a new modular data center can slash energy use by 50 percent. Below is the actual news about the issue. “A new IBM modular data center that mimics the power and energy efficiency of IBM’s computing hubs can reduce energy costs by up to 50 percent, the company says. IBM says it [...]

Consider this… According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the electricity usage of data centers, those burning rooms where stacks of computers are stored, will double to 120 billion kilowatt-hours by 2011. That would make the data center industry the single largest user of energy in the US.

You have heard of your ancestors using wood to burn, cook or to light camp fires to keep themselves warm during cold days. You would have done it at one point of the other. Maybe you did not know, but you have been using one of the grandest and oldest forms of biomass for your [...]

Climate Time Machine, not your ordinary time machine that  is capable of bringing you to the past and change destiny. Hence, it is a joint project between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and the California Institute of Technology, NASA’s Climate Time Machine  is a web application that allows you to visualize recent changes on earth in [...]

There’s been a lot of news about algae lately.  Algae, those simple organisms which grow like plants but are much simpler than them, has an oil content. These are lipids which can be increased by as much as 60% when algae are starved of nutrients. Like in everything in the promise of renewables, there are a [...]

The battery electric vehicle, or BEV, is a type of electric vehicle (EV) that uses chemical energy stored in rechargeable battery packs. As with other electric vehicles, BEVs use electric motors and motor controllers instead of internal combustion engines (ICEs) for propulsion. History of BEVs and hybrid vehicles: 1665 – 1825 – Between 1665 and 1680, Flemish Jesuit [...]

Solar energy is the radiant light and heat from the Sun that has been harnessed by humans since ancient times using a range of ever-evolving technologies. Solar radiation along with secondary solar resources such as wind and wave power, hydroelectricity and biomass account for most of the available renewable energy on Earth. Only a minuscule [...]