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Emerging Tech
Get to Mars by Selling All Your Earthly Possessions
Elon Musk wants a ticket to Mars to cost $500,000. For those left behind, he'll have a cheap electric car for you.
Emerging Tech
Why Google is Making a Big Deal Over a Little Solar Device
Gadgets called inverters are key to making usable solar energy, and Google wants them super small and cheap.
Emerging Tech
Want More Renewable Energy? Send in the Drones
Out in the desert it's hard to know when one solar panel among millions has failed. Unless you're a drone.
Emerging Tech
The Forever Battery, Brought to You by Old-School Silicon Valley Technologists
A startup has invented an energy storage device that could take an entire neighborhood off the grid.
Emerging Tech
The Brutal Bust in Next-Generation Biofuels in One Chart
The U.S. government finally gets it: We won't be powering our cars with corncobs any time soon.
Emerging Tech
How Google Is Helping Warren Buffett Go Green
The search giant makes a big wind energy buy from Buffett's MidAmerican Energy.
Emerging Tech
How China Will Dominate the U.S. Electric-Bus Market
The country is emerging as an innovator in green tech.
Emerging Tech
How to Generate Solar Power in the Dark
Meet 'photoswitches,' a breakthrough set of materials that act as their own batteries, absorbing energy and releasing it on demand.
Emerging Tech
Pilots Complain That Glare From the World’s Biggest Solar Power Plant Is Blinding Them
The 340,000 mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System are reflecting sunlight up into the air.
Modernization
The Internet of Bees Could Save Our Food Supply
Scientists attach tiny sensors to 5,000 honey bees.
Emerging Tech
Here's a Climate Change Fix: a Giant Solar Power Plant on the Moon
Imagined by Japan, staffed by robots.
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Emerging Tech
Why Elon Musk Is a Utility Executive’s Worst Nightmare
Solar and other new technologies could render today's electricity business obsolete.
Emerging Tech
Meet the Newest Big Solar Developers: Native Americans
More dependable solar thermal systems are losing out to solar panels except, perhaps, on tribal lands.
Emerging Tech
Google Is on the Way to Quietly Becoming an Electric Utility
The tech giant may end up driving up prices.
Emerging Tech
The Next Solar Manufacturing Boom Will Be in the Middle East
Here's more proof that the center of the solar-power universe is shifting.
Digital Government
Vietnam Taps Big Data to Avoid China’s Traffic Catastrophe
IBM has signed a deal with the city of Da Nang to create a high-tech traffic management system
Emerging Tech
So Much for the Solar Trade War: China Panel Makers Set New Sales Records
The death of China’s solar industry appears to have been greatly exaggerated.
Digital Government
Big Data Is Giving China an Edge in Renewable Energy Production
IBM is deploying technology that crunches data coming from individual wind turbines.
Emerging Tech
The Collapse of China’s Photovoltaic Industry Will Spark the Next Solar Boom
The global solar industry may have hit the doldrums, but it could double again to a $155 billion business by 2018.
