Going platinum used to excite musicians, now it's investors
Well, records are made to be broken as any street-corner philiospher can tell you. And platinum has now broken its own price record.
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Your flat screen TV could be killing the planet, read all about it
There's a research paper being much-touted in the tech and green press: concludes that nitrogen trifluoride is many times worse for the earth's atmosphere than methane or CO2 or the more popular greenhouse gases. That nitrogen trifluoride, also known as NF3, its chemical formula, is used in making...
Here's the drill...greener than before says Imara
A Silicon Valley company claims a major breakthrough in the battery biz. And so much of our world is now battery driven.
Bay Area mayors want to electrify their commuters
The three major cities in the San Francisco Bay Area want to lead the nation in electric autos. Today they took another big step in that direction.
Oil and the future of cleantech are NOT separable
Courtesy Gordon Murray & Mohr Davidow.I recently blogged about one VC's efforts in cleantech as it relates to finding renewable replacements for petrochemicals and coal-based products.
Toddler finds way to really green solar: turning green plants into photovoltaics
The sandwich of materials that is today's solar panel. Courtesy: Biosolar.
Digital system to monitor a greenhouse gas in California
Methane emissions to be measured in California, a pioneering monitoring program in U.S.
Friendly microbes doing our dirty work
A Canadian research team has found an effective way to monitor the anti-polution work being done by soil microbes. Turns out the microbes prefer thelighter carbon 12 isotope over the heavier carbon 13.
Not only green, efficient, but now cheaper
LEDs are the new plastic, the new black, the new new thing. Harvard has done research that will provide a much cheaper way to make the Gallium Nitride components that make LEDs what they are.
Green landmark in New York
Courtesy: Empire State Building.The famous Empire State Building is undergong a facelift.