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Dozens of companies are developing tools to get consumers involved in home energy management, but businesses are easier customers to serve, say smart-grid execs.

Vehicles with sensor-driven magnetic devices on their underside suck up energy as they travel over the strips embedded just under the road surface.

This year's MIT Energy conference provided showcase for energy entrepreneurs as investors and executives grappled with how to make giant energy business cleaner.

The Friends of the Supergrid group of companies says that tying together offshore wind farms would compensate for the variability of wind power.

The Nissan Leaf takes the Green Car Vision award at 2010 DC Auto Show.

We've seen the Volt and the Leaf, but there's a new player in town and its an Electric Minivan.

Milking Algae for Oil; Making Solar Greener; Hospital Strives for 100% Renewable Energy; Kodak Solar Charger; Amtrak carbon tracking
Milking Algae for Oil. OriginOil, based in Los Angeles, just announced new technology that promises a better way to “milk” algae to extract their natural oils. Origin uses electrical pulses to get at the oil inside algae [...]

Metro Cell Vehicle Concept; RainShine LEED Platinum House; $700 Billion Gain from Energy Efficiency; Electric Light-Sport Aircraft; BP says America’s the Land for Wind Power
Metro Cell Vehicle Concept. Single person semi-private vehicle system called PDD (pickup-drive-drop) will be implemented. With the PDD system, a driver finds a “cellular-mobile stack”, engages a car and uses it [...]

So, Greenpeace takes it upon themselves to graffiti the top of HP’s headquarters with the words “hazardous products” in order to protest the use of toxic materials in their computers, saying that:
“There is no reason for HP to continue using these toxic products. It’s technically feasible and consumers want it too. Apple has proven they [...]