Floating wind turbine launched
The Hywind, a 2.3 megawatt (MW) wind turbine built by Siemens, combines technologies from both the wind farming industry and the oil and gas sectors, and will be tested off the coast of Norway for two years...[Details]

Company Wants to Produce Solar-Power Trees
What's green and leafy and full of solar energy? If you guessed a tree, you're right, but this tree isn't quite like any you've seen before...[Details]

Wireless Power Harvesting for Cell Phones
Nokia hopes to create a device that could harvest enough power to keep a cell phone topped up...[Details]

Labyrinth To Store Energy in Basement for Later Use
There's a labyrinth in the basement of NREL's newest building. The maze wasn't designed to hem in a mythical beast or to confuse workers, but it is a trap -- one that will capture the heat of the day or the cool of the night, hold onto it and then slowly release the thermal energy to help warm or cool the building...[Details]

Smartcool Completes Energy Efficiency Projects in British Columbia
The ECO3TM has been installed on refrigeration systems for a restaurant, a grocery store and a food processing plant and the air conditioning system for a small commercial building and a data centre...[Details]

The Greening of Big Blue
With the groundbreaking today of an ambitious data center project on the Syracuse University campus, IBM is taking its "Smarter Planet" data center work to the next level...[Details]

Toronto Hydro's Data Centre Incentive Program (DCIP) provides more savings to efficient operations
Toronto provides data centres with financial incentives to reduce energy demand and promote energy efficiency in their data centre operations...[Details]

Germany's Chemical Industry Looks at Switching to Biomass
Germany's chemical industry -- the world's third biggest -- depends on fossil fuels for its products. But a new research center to be built in Germany's industrial heartland Leuna in Saxony Anhalt may help to change that...[Details]

MIT's new alloy has chrome's shine but not its toxins
Marlborough, Mass.-based Xtalic has licensed MIT's technology on a worldwide level and thinks it has a commercially viable product...[Details]

Hydro-Québec and Ford work together to develop electric vehicles
Hydro-Québec and Ford Motor Company announced today that Hydro-Québec has joined a North America wide demonstration and research program on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs)...[Details]

Bottletop technology could slash aviation emissions by a fifth
Tiny holes in plane's wing promise to reduce drag by up to 40 per cent...[Details]

A CLEAN TECH GATHERING  •  June 19th, 2009  •  Markham, Ontario
The Innovation Synergy Centre in Markham (ISCM), in partnership with the Town of Markham and OCETA invite you to network, meet industry peers, participate in panel discussions, and learn from business and government leaders and managers about the growing Clean Technology Business Sector...[Details]