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No easy answers on energy even with innovative tech

Martin LaMonica | Sep 28, 2009

No matter how you look at it, the big picture on energy trends isn't pretty.

A number of factors--a swelling world population with more people aspiring to higher standards of living, limited resources, and a pressing need to curb pollutants--mean that the world needs more efficient and cleaner sources of energy, according to a panel of experts at the EmTech technology conference last Thursday.

A number of technologies can play a significant role in cleaning the massive energy industry, but the innovations in energy face a far more complicated path to market than other technologies, like computing, they said.
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The lighter side of IDF 2009

Juniper Foo | Sep 25, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO--It's not all chips and processors. In an effort to balance the equation, the Intel Developer Forum also had its lighter, and greener, moments over at Moscone Center.

No Guitar Hero here, just the real McCoy making cool riffs at the Technology Showcase for some light entertainment. (Credit: Juniper Foo/CNET Asia)

This may not have been the usual crowd that Grammy-winning rock band Maroon 5 plays to, but the IDF Nightcap still ended on a high note. (Credit: Nicholas Khoo)

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Students build Curio House that runs entirely on solar power

Martin LaMonica | Sep 22, 2009

The Boston Architecture School and Tufts University are building the Curio House, a home that's designed to run entirely from solar energy.
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To build a home powered entirely by the sun, students here drew inspiration from Boston neighborhoods rather than the futuristic lifestyle of "The Jetsons."

At Medford, Massachusetts, college students from Tufts University and the Boston Architectural College last Thursday cut the ribbon for the opening of the Curio House, a building that will run entirely on solar energy. It's the New England region's entry into the Solar Decathlon, a US Department of Energy-run event where 20 teams compete for the best solar-home designs.
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Jet engine-inspired FloDesign offers cheaper wind power

Martin LaMonica | Sep 18, 2009

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Startup FloDesign Wind, one of a number of companies looking to shake up the wind turbine business, said a prototype of its jet engine-inspired turbine was three times more efficient at converting wind to usable energy than traditional designs.

The Massachusetts-based company is seeking to raise a series B round of US$25 million later this year to deploy and test the real-life performance of its 150-kilowatt turbines, said CEO Stanley Kowalski III at the Cleantech Forum conference in the US on Thursday.

FloDesign Wind last year was spun out of aerospace engineering company FloDesign, which has supplied components used in military helicopters and fighter planes. Using its expertise in aerodynamics, the company is developing a wind turbine that more resembles a jet engine than a typical three-blade turbine.
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Flowers as Wi-Fi hotspots sprout across US

Daniel Terdiman | Sep 17, 2009

Poetic Kinetics' Wi-Fi flowers
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SAN FRANCISCO--A pair of Los Angeles artists have teamed up with Toyota on an unusually functional art project: A set of large, colorful flowers that have been providing free Wi-Fi and power outlets in public places around the country.

Currently on display in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens, the flowers--the creation of a company called Poetic Kinetics and its principals, Patrick Shearn and Cynthia Washburn--are part of a campaign for Toyota's newest generation Prius.

Brightly colored by day and lit up with LEDs at night, the flowers have been on tour around the country for several weeks. According to John Lisko, the executive communications director for Saatchi & Saatchi, Toyota's ad agency on the project, the flowers have gone through Boston, New York, Chicago, Seattle, and will shortly be departing for Los Angeles.

Inspired, at least in part, by a set of giant, mobile flowers Shearn built for Burning Man in 2005 and 2006, Toyota commissioned the project to reflect the theme of the new Prius: Harmony between man, nature, and machine.
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