A solar-powered factory for green drywall maker
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The Serious Materials drywall will cure itself, so the factory it plans to build will only require a 100-kilowatt solar system, enough to power about 33 homes.
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Using the photosynthesis of spinach to produce electric current.
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The idea of renewable energy at home is  no longer as distant as an offshore wind farm. More companies  are waking up to the popularity of green energy and the Web  hosts many sites showing steps people can take -- or gadgets  they can buy -- to use renewable technology, from renting a  solar panel to burning calories with a pedal-powered washing  machine.
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CANBERRA, Australia - An environmentally friendly paper manufacturer has stumbled upon an unlikely way to put an unwanted natural resource to good use. The company has created its first batch of paper from marsupial manure.
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Building-integrated photovoltaics gets a boost with power-producing terracotta roof tiles.
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The Web hosting company chosen to power the Web sites for this weekend's Live Earth concerts adopts an environmentally friendly business plan: Let the sunshine in.
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Solar Data Centers, a Web-hosting company, plans to power its servers on electricity generated by solar panels.
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(InfoWorld) - The IT industry's thirst for energy is growing exponentially, far outpacing the supply of reliable, clean power. Now a group of leading IT firms has banded together to try to head off an impending energy crisis in the datacenter. Eleven enterprise heavyweights including Microsoft, IBM, Sun, HP, Intel, AMD, Rackable Systems, and VMWare announced Monday that they have formed a non-profit group called The Green Grid to drive new metrics, technology standards, and best practices for curbing power consumption. Robust growth in the IT sector and in companies' use of technology is leading to an acute power shortage, according to analyst firm Gartner. Half the worldâs datacenters will run out of power by the end of 2008, Gartner estimates. That means companies face swelling utility bills as they struggle to keep their servers cool and humming. Many of the companies participating in The Green Grid are individually developing energy-efficient technologies. However, joining forces to tackle the power-consumption problem holistically is a must, according to Green Grid board member Bruce Shaw, director of worldwide commercial and enterprise marketing at AMD. "No one player owns the kingdom. It's not just a processor problem. It's not just a server problem. It's not just a memory problem. Everyone in the ecosystem needs to be involved." By working together, Green Grid companies can develop ways for their respective greener technologies to "hook into one another," thus increasing their overall effectiveness, Shaw said. The consortium started work last April, with representatives for AMD, Sun, IBM, and HP getting the ball rolling. Not surprisingly, there have been challenges from the out start, including concerns about intellectual property and developing a standard way to measure power consumption   "Do you measure by performance per watt? Per dollar? Per thread? Something different?" said Green Grid boar member Colette LaForce, vice president of marketing at Rackable Systems.Â
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Chip-making technique to fuel AMD64, PowerPC, 'Cell' production
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As the company begins using the plant to make a significant shift from 65nm to 45nm microprocessors, it's also trying to boost its green quotient.
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Sandia National Laboratories' "Sunshine to Petrol" project uses solar energy to recycle carbon dioxide and recover the building blocks of hydrocarbons, which can then be used to synthesize fuels like methanol and gasoline.
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Sharp is planning to double production of solar electricity modules at a factory in Wales, it said Friday.
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A quarter of further education colleges are set to use solar panels, says a survey.
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Blog: Start-up will use series B funding to build out 20-megawatt solar-cell manufacturing plant.
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The construction of a thin-film plant in China bodes well for long-term growth.
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If you ran a city, what energy source  would you use -- cheap coal, or costly but environmentally  friendly solar power?
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InfoWorld - The Web hosting company chosen to power the Web sites for this weekend&#39;s Live Earth concerts adopts an environmentally friendly business plan: Let the sunshine in.