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Kudzu: a biofuel that might curb air pollution but not the way you think

A new study finds the destructive kudzu plant also causes air pollution. Could the invasive weed's potential as a biofuel help redeem itself?

May 27, 2010 by Melissa Mahony

How to turn plastic bottles into $78 million of biofuel

A 16-year-old Egyptian high school student has just come up with a way to turn non-biodegradable plastic waste into clean-burning biofuel.

August 7, 2012 by Tuan Nguyen

Tech Policy Summit: Solving the energy problem

Floyd Kvamme kicked off the Tech Policy Summit, which is advertised as a non-partisan conference attended by tech industry insiders, investors, policymakers, non-profit leaders, regulators and legal experts to "examine critical policy issues affecting technology innovation and adoption in Silicon Valley and beyond.

February 26, 2007 by Dan Farber

TechNet rolls out green tech agenda

TechNet has formalized its green tech policies into report, "Green Technologies: An Innovation Agenda for America.” The bipartisan group of technology executives came up with a long list of recommendations, ranging from standards for green house emissions to federal tax policy reform.

March 14, 2007 by Dan Farber

Transportation surges past smart grid in Q3 2010 cleantech investment

Transportation topped smart grid and biofuels in cleantech investment in the third quarter of 2010, according to a new report. Here's a breakdown of the numbers.

October 3, 2010 by Andrew Nusca

The world's fastest supercomputers are still getting faster, but it's taking them longer

The latest Top500 list shows that supercomputers are getting better, but more slowly.

November 17, 2020 by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet

Green chemistry's 'race to innovation'

As with green-tech movement, the eco-spin on chemical science isn't just for tree huggers. Businesses, too, are betting on better materials.

November 12, 2007 by Natalie Gagliordi

Here comes the sun, and the V.C. money. No nucs is good nucs.

Dateline:GoingGreen Conference, Davis, CAFirst panel of the day gets right to the point: where are the VC putting their green tech dollars? The panel: Raj Atluru, Draper Fisher Jurvetson partner.

September 11, 2007 by Harry Fuller

Should clean airspace trump economic development?

Britain plans to curb "binge flying" by limiting growth at Heathrow Airport. Here in the United States, the FAA is taking a more technology-driven approach to the problem.

July 1, 2010 by Heather Clancy

Life in extreme environments

U.S. biologists have developed a model mapping the control circuit governing a bacteria named Halobacterium salinarum, which can live in extremely salty environments, and that can survive to radiation which would be deadly to most other organisms. Their model shows how these bacteria adapt themselves in response to their environment. According to the biologists, 'this study marks the first time researchers have accurately predicted a cell's dynamics at the genome scale.' This research effort is 'an important milestone for the new field of systems biology,' but could also lead to new ways of engineering biofuels and pharmaceuticals.

December 30, 2007 by Roland Piquepaille