Economy would save $500 Billion: new public-private report. Energy efficiency is the cheapest, easiest, lowest hanging fruit to boost the economy and the environment.
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Depending on how fast Google spends its money, its investment could rival the federal government’s investment in renewable energy. A Government Accountability Office report found that Department of Energy spending on research and development of biomass, wind and solar energy sources totaled just $65 million in 2006.
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Living in drought conditions? Wonder where your next drink of water will come from? The answer might be flowing under your street right now. Recycled sewage is getting a closer look from civic planners who are wrestling with how to keep that tap water running strong.
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With airports and highways more congested than ever, new steel-wheel and maglev lines that move millions in Europe and Japan have the potential to resurrect the age of American railroads. Interactive map shows where high speed trains would run, and the chart compares efficiency and eco-friendliness high speed trains vs. planes and automobiles.
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New technology in the Toyota Prius still too far ahead for Georgia’s emission testing.
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The Energy Committee of the U.S. Senate is drafting a bill that would phase out the use of incandescent light bulbs in the United States. The move to ban incandescent bulbs is part of a wider attempt to curb U.S. energy usage in order to address the problem of global warming.
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Google Inc. said on Tuesday the Web services and online advertising group plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in coming years to promote a new push to encourage cheap renewable electricity. The project, known as Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal, is hiring engineers for solar, wind powered and geothermal […]
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A new Google initiative, known as RE
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Who wants to go play with me in the plastic snow?
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Today, Google announced RE — think renewable electricity cheaper than coal. To be honest, it is hard to overestimate the importance of actions like these.
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"We started working on developing the site back in October 2004," Kevin Rose told ZDNet "We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of digg. The site launched to the world on December 5th 2004."
Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered. “Diggnation” would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcast.