Google and Microsoft Building Smart Power Grids
| Carbon capture for coal costly, study finds. Harvard University researchers have issued a new report that confirms what many experts already feared: Stopping greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants is going to cost a lot of money. |
| Lean Business is Green Business: Improving performance with EDFs Green Portfolio Framework A little over a year ago, EDF kicked off a partnership with private equity (PE) leader Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). The goal of the project is to develop and implement a system (were calling it the Green Portfolio Framework) for improving environmental and business performance across KKRs portfolio companies. Through the process, we [.] |
Ethanol Industry Loses Pioneer The renewable fuel industry received a jolt in the form of Kathy Bryans death. She was the founder of BBI International, a global bio fuels consulting and publishing company. She is considered to be a pioneer for the ethanol-based bio fuel industry. In the early 80s when very few people knew about ethanol as [.]Posted in: Biofuels, Ethanol, Industry |
| World dependent on fossil fuels for a century The world will remain heavily dependent on fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal for the rest of this century, despite the best efforts of governments to move toward renewable energy, an energy economist said on Wednesday. |
| Poisoning the Poor with eWaste in Ghana Green issues are sometimes complex. We need to recycle many things, like electronics, but we certainly don’t want to poison others in the process. Efforts to protect the environment and conserve valuable resources must be coupled with proper health and safety procedures. Unfortunately, just saying this doesn’t make it happen. Developing countries are becoming a dumping ground for much toxic waste and proper environmental health and safety is being ignored, both by local opportunists and suppliers of e-Waste from developed nations.  |
| Gregoire: State has 47,000 ‘green’ jobs. Gov. Chris Gregoire testified before a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday, touting the states success at creating clean, green jobs and tipping her hat to the green training programs at Washingtons two-year colleges. |
Google and Microsoft Building Smart Power Grids If you think the two technology giants Google and Microsoft compete only on cloud-based applications and new-age search engines, youll be surprised to know that they are making forays into developing two-way power grids that will not only bring electricity to your house, but will also help you optimize usage and consequently, save money. [.]Posted in: Future Energy, Industry |
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