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A new report from MIT shows that the number of patents for renewable energy technologies has risen sharply over the last decade, outpacing fossil fuels.
In the most ambitious plan in the US to power vehicles with landfill gas, Clean Energy Fuels has started selling methane fuel at filling stations in California.
Austin-based Skyonic, a carbon-capture technology developer, just broke ground on the nation’s first commercial-scale carbon capture and mineralization plant.
California's Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System produced its first energy. the venture is jointly owned by NRG Energy, BrightSource Energy, and Google.
Lockheed Martin engineers have found a way to slash the amount of energy needed to remove salt from seawater by using graphene sheets just one atom thick.
Solar Sister gives poor African women a “business in a bag,“ a kit that includes inventory, training and marketing to sell solar technology to other villagers.
Unlike other biofuel gasifiers that burn only presorted waste, this furnace can heat all kinds of trash to 3,000-4,000°F, from worn tires to raw sewage.
California Governor Jerry Brown has an ambitious plan to bring 20,000 megawatts of renewable power to his state, including 12,000 megawatts of distributed generation, and he wants it in place by 2020.
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