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Recharge Your Wardrobe: Fashion and Tech Collide with emPOWERED

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Tired of schlepping around a phone charger with you all day, only to find that you have nowhere to charge your phone? emPOWERED is a line of tech-enabled fashion that launched this week with the...

Sprint, FedEx Back Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tests

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The flurry of corporate interest in hydrogen fuel cells continued this week with telecommunications giant Sprint announcing that it will use the emerging technology as a means of backing up power for...

Energy Storage: Winning/Losing In The Market

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Bottling up wind and solar energies would be a critical component of their success.  And while such energy storage devices are making market headway, they are losing some ground at the same time...

The Rise Of Thin-Film Solar Technology

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I am a sucker for data visualization graphics, especially if the data involved energy innovation. Needless to say, I was thrilled to discover a dynamic mapping of the geographic history of thin-film...

CES 2014 in Las Vegas Highlights: Sunsocket Solar Generator from Aspect Technologies, Inc

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The much awaited Consumer Electronics Show (CES), also known as International CES is just only a few days away from now. We have been eagerly waiting for this event since last and can’t wait anymore...
    






Solar Installer Takes Google Glass Up On The Roof

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One of the residential solar industry’s ongoing challenges surrounds standardizing and speeding up the time it takes to get installations approved and in place. One small installer in San Diego is...
    






Mosaic Plans Overseas Expansion With Its Kickstarter-Style Solar Campaigns

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Mosaic, a California startups that raises solar project investments through kickstarter-like campaigns, plans to expand overseas to communities with little or no access to electricity. The company...
    






DOE Mentions Technology Behind The Home Nuclear Reactor In Funding Opportunity

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The Department of Energy included low energy nuclear reactions—which NASA scientists have said could fuel home nuclear reactors—among other representative technologies in a $10 million funding...