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Atheros's Wi-Fi/powerline combo is truly 'smart energy'
Patrick Mannion
7/2/2010 11:36 AM EDT
While challenging, Atheros is in a great position to follow through on its plan to combine powerline networking with Wi-Fi—and it is an excellent example of what Smart Energy is all about.
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Product Engr
A Networked Smart Energy Home power control system -- for device management and monitoring -- If the ...
What's the status of FCV research?
Anne-Francoise Pele
6/21/2010 4:23 PM EDT
Fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) are already in use, but only for demonstration purposes. Fuel cells indeed came into the spotlight last year when leading carmakers said they expected to launch a few hundred thousand FCVs to the market as from 2015.
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Manjunatha TM
However, fuel cell technology faces another greater challenge along with above two problems. Waste ...
Goodbye, incandescent bulb--or maybe not?
Bill Schweber
6/11/2010 10:55 AM EDT
Before we rush to get rid of incandescent bulbs, we should honestly acknowledge their virtues, as well as the shortcomings of electronic alternatives
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lighthouse
Agreed, CFLs and LEDs have their advantages too - but the "switch all your lights and save lots of ...
EVs sound good but electricity still has its cost
Patrick Mannion
5/18/2010 4:46 PM EDT
I want clean air and energy independence as much as anyone. I’m just not sure all-electric vehicles are the way to achieve it.
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Pistonslap
Electric vehicles are completely viable with todays technology. They can't be all things to all ...
How about hydraulic wind turbines?
Bill Schweber
5/15/2010 12:00 PM EDT
This interesting alternative design offers advantages but also has drawbacks
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green_is_now
Add heat exchangers, turbo expanders, effiecency comes back up. Large size offsets costs. ...
Keep alternative energy engineering clean: from politics
Patrick Mannion
4/1/2010 3:14 PM EDT
We were brainstorming on ideas for the up-coming EETimes Digital Edition on Alternative Energy (mark your calendar: it debuts June 7th) and I realized after just a few minutes that it's really hard to discuss Alternative Energy without raising political hackles, no matter how much you try and focus on the engineering aspects.
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Work to Ride comma Ride to Work
Great ideals, lousy reality. Only those things that are economically feasible are viable. Period. ...
Greener Gadgets Conference 2010 - Full of ideas, short on gadgets
Allan Yogasingam
2/25/2010 9:34 PM EST
Allan Yogasingam checks in with his thoughts on CEA's Greener Gadget Conference from New York.
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GPBobby
Your observation about the lack of technical understanding (let alone expertise) on the part of the ...
Opinion: Is 'climate science' really science?
Bill Schweber
2/16/2010 5:54 PM EST
Is man-made climate change happening or not? The author isn't sure one way or the other, but is skeptical when proponents look at the data and rationalize what they see to fit their hypothesis.
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Quickbadger
Teh whole "hole in the ozone layer" thing was a good example of bad science - Freon may, in fact, ...
Members of the Cleantech Community " the ACE Awards needs you!
Allan Yogasingam
1/26/2010 10:42 AM EST
The ACE Awards are looking for nominations in for the MOST PROMISING RENEWABLE ENERGY AWARD.
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Welcome to the 'Decade of Clean Technology'
Allan Yogasingam
1/6/2010 3:50 PM EST
Green SupplyLine's first blog of the new decade is a positive one.
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ferceaglio
Totalmente de acuerdo, hay que apostar a las energias limpias y en esta decada tenemos que trabajar ...