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Using Heat to Cool Buildings

New materials developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory improve adsorption chilling and could make practical air…

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Digital Lumens Wins More Cold Storage

Digital Lumens' LED Lighting Systems--which save up to 90 percent of lighting energy--have been installed in Americold facilities in…

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General Electric Buys Converteam For $3.2B

Industrial equipment uses more than 25 percent of all the energy in the U.S. and industry players are using various techniques to…

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Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency will showcase technologies and opportunities for a sustainable energy future

Leaders from industry, academia and government from around the country will gather to discuss the latest advances and opportunities in…

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Grid-Scale Energy Storage Breakthrough? Upgrading Vanadium Redox Batteries

A new development in vanadium redox batteries from DOE's Pacific Northwest Regional Laboratory could make them a promising option for…

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2011 Trends in Cleantech: Corporate Actors Are Seriously Coming to the Table

The Cleantech Forum highlighted two recent trends: (1) big corporations have become increasingly active by opening their infrastructure…

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Entrepreneur Creates Energy-Efficient Air Conditioner to Help Consumers Save Money

The Mojave Breeze hybrid air cooler uses indirect evaporative cooling without bringing humid air into homes and requires 80% less…

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Wildcat’s Advance in Rechargeable Battery Materials

Wildcat Discovery Technologies' combinatorial chemistry tools give the company the capability to rapidly synthesize inorganic materials…

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Low-Power Memory from Nanotubes

A new type of nonvolatile memory based on carbon nanotubes requires one percent as much power as flash memory and could improve battery…

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Microsoft Moving into Building Management, Demand Response

Microsoft is developing a strategy for software and services for managing energy consumption in commercial buildings, as well as a…

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Demand Response Goes to the Cloud

Integrating cloud computing with demand response is a growing trend. This week, Lockheed Martin integrated its demand response…

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When Energy Efficiency Sullies the Environment

The lower costs that can result from energy-efficiency improvements (e.g. better fuel economy, utility bill savings, etc.) can…

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Compressed Air Storage Beats Batteries at Grid Scale

Venture firms have funded many electrochemical technologies for utility-scale energy storage, but issues with cost, long-term…

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Congress Backs Energy Agency

Congress is providing increased funding support to ARPA-E at a time when many programs face cuts.

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Squeezing More Energy Out of Batteries

Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center has developed a new printing technology that promises to pack more energy into batteries for electric…

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Registration Opens for the Third Annual Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency

Industry, academia, and government to address the latest in science and technology for a sustainable energy future.

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