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Belkin Conserve lineup will make you feel even worse about all the electricity you're wasting

Jun 23rd 2010

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Belkin's just made four new Conserve products available for pre-order. The Conserve Insight tracks your actual devices' electrical usage and tells you how much they cost you on a yearly basis. It also calculates CO2 emissions produced by usage of a given device on either a monthly or yearly basis. The Conserve Smart AV is a greener power strip with five regular outlets and one green outlet for your television, which can auto-detect the power state of your teevee and turn off your periph……

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Tesla pulls in $465 million government loan to build Model S electric sedan

Jan 27th 2010

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The Detroit News is reporting that Tesla has closed on a $465 million low-cost loans from the Energy Department to work on its next electric vehicle, the Model S sedan.The funds will apparently be used by the company to build manufacturing plants in California. The loan, which closed on Monday and was approved back in June, will come from the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program, which has about $25 billion to dole out to automakers manufacturing energy efficient vehicles. The Mode……

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CEA rails on California's proposed TV energy standards, rings doomsday bell

Apr 22nd 2009

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Oh, brother — you had to see this coming, didn't you? Soon after details of the California Energy Commission's proposed TV efficiency standards leaked out, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has fired back a shocking press release in order to sound the alarm and get people in opposition. Acco……

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Artificial trees could function as solar-wind harvester

Feb 25th 2009

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SolarBotanic is a company which researches and specializes in an emerging tech dubbed biomimicry — which seeks to mimic nature, and use nature-inspired methods to solve human problems. SolarBotanic is focusing on energy production, and, to that end, they’ve developed what they call Energy Harvesti……

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NYT: Google's PowerMeter to let users track electricity usage

Feb 11th 2009

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The New York Times is reporting Google will announce a free web service tomorrow called PowerMeter that’ll let users track energy consumption in their homes or business, provided there’s a means to upload the data. That part of the equation’s gonna be up to other companies to create compatible de……

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The best of the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, so far

Feb 4th 2009

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The Greener Gadgets Conference is coming up in a few weeks here, so we thought we’d bring you some highlights of the design competition it’s sponsoring. First up, Recompute is a fully sustainable design for a desktop computer — meaning that it makes use of low-impact manufacturing, uses fully recy……

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LightDrops umbrella classes up your act, generates electricity

Dec 17th 2008

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The brainchild of designer Sang-Kyun Park, LightDrops is an umbrella that uses the piezoelectric effect of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) to transform falling rain into electricity, which is then used to light LEDs installed on the umbrella's underside. The heavier the rain falls (and the harder it hits ……

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Piezoelectrics could lead to voice-powered cellphones

Dec 10th 2008

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Just imagine — yapping for hours on end to your dream lover could actually leave your cellphone with more juice than what it started with. This completely bizarre scenario could theoretically become a reality according to new research from a professor at Texas A&M University, and it's all thanks to t……

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VIVACE generates big power from small currents

Dec 4th 2008

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These days people are looking everywhere to find new, cheap, and plentiful sources of electricity, and while you wouldn’t call it new, the ocean is certainly cheap and plentiful. Plentiful too are the people attempting to convert its motion into power by tapping its waves or extracting its heat. But what……

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Updated Energy Star spec goes into effect November 1

Dec 4th 2008

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The new Energy Star 3.0 TV specification — this time including a test for how much electricity televisions use while turned on, not just while off — goes into effect next month. According to CNET's tests, the difference in power saved by more efficient (but not necessarily ideal PQ) default settings cou……

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