Data center developer and operator 365 Main Inc. has issued detailed information regarding the root cause behind why back-up power generators in the company's San Francisco facility failed to start during a PG&E power outage last week, resulting in approximately 40 percent of customers in the facility losing power to their equipment for up to 45 minutes.

Data center developer and operator 365 Main Inc. has issued detailed information regarding the root cause behind why back-up power generators in the company's San Francisco facility failed to start during a PG&E power outage last week, resulting in approximately 40 percent of customers in the facility losing power to their equipment for up to 45 minutes.

UK managed hosting provider Ultraspeed has announced the roll-out of a unique combination of technology designed to deliver a next generation hosting service with dramatically enhanced reliability and a reduction in power consumption estimated at 40%. To achieve this, the company is using an innovative blend of measures which includes the adoption of DC power, a 'diskless' server environment and the latest Intel Xeon 5300 low-voltage quad core processors.

The lithium ion car battery created by Tesla Motors has passed a battery of certification tests that effectively remove another hurdle in the path toward selling products. Because they can burst into flames, lithium ion batteries are classified as dangerous goods, according to Erik Toomre, Director of Manufacturing Programs. "Before we ship it to the public, we have to demonstrate that it is safe," he said.

The lithium ion car battery created by Tesla Motors has passed a battery of certification tests that effectively remove another hurdle in the path toward selling products. Because they can burst into flames, lithium ion batteries are classified as dangerous goods, according to Erik Toomre, Director of Manufacturing Programs. "Before we ship it to the public, we have to demonstrate that it is safe," he said.

Plug-in hybrids have emerged as the favorite form of transportation for reducing greenhouse gases in the near term, but calculating their energy efficiency can be a little complicated.

Plug-in hybrids have emerged as the favorite form of transportation for reducing greenhouse gases in the near term, but calculating their energy efficiency can be a little complicated.

Last week's news that widening a stretch of the M6 motorway will cost £3bn, or £1,000 an inch, was depressing not just because of the huge sum but for what it says about the government's spending priorities.

Last week's news that widening a stretch of the M6 motorway will cost £3bn, or £1,000 an inch, was depressing not just because of the huge sum but for what it says about the government's spending priorities.

When it comes to producing earth-friendly solar energy, pink may be the new green, according to Ohio State University researchers. Scientists there have developed new dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) that get their pink color from a mixture of red dye and white metal oxide powder in materials that capture light.

The benefits of non-silicon photovoltaic materials are many and varied. Some are transparent, permitting the face of a wristwatch to generate power, the power source having zero footprints. Some, such as Dye Sensitised Solar Cells printed by G24i in the UK, generate electricity at narrow angles of incidence and even with polarised eg reflected light. DSSC designs can use light of all visible frequencies, not just sunlight.

BRITAIN'S biggest coach firm has abandoned its current biodiesel trial amid concern that using the fuel may be harming the environment. National Express said it had "considerable concern" that producing biofuels from crops would destroy wildlife habitats and increase food costs in developing countries.

The world thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV) market is forecast to reach $7.2 billion by 2015, compared to just over $1.0 billion today, according to a new report

When tremors started cracking walls and bathroom tiles in this Swiss city on the Rhine, the engineers knew they had a problem. But the 3.4 magnitude tremor on the evening of Dec. 8 was no ordinary act of nature: It had been accidentally triggered by engineers drilling deep into the Earth's crust to tap its inner heat and thus break new ground -- literally -- in the world's search for new sources of energy.

British Gas owner Centrica today said that it has acquired a 50pc shareholding in Airtricity's Braes of Doune wind farm in Scotland. Under the joint venture agreement, renewable energy company Airtricity- and Centrica will each have 50 per cent ownership of the Stirlingshire wind farm.

"We believe that energy efficiency represents a significant market opportunity for investors, as policy changes look set to force a structural shift in demand."

In the second quarter of 2007, the German-American solar technology company SolarWorld Group increased sales and earnings in the double digit range. Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) went up by 32 percent

Spain -- the world's second leading producer of wind power -- has passed a new law allowing wind parks to be built off its coast. It is predicted that the offshore wind parks will generate between 2,000 and 3,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity by 2020.

A new version of the internal combustion engine, which could significantly cut gas consumption, might be surprisingly practical and easy to deploy, according to recent findings by researchers at MIT.

Germany's Schott Solar and Wacker Chemie AG have formed a joint venture to produce silicon wafers for solar cells, another sign of how the solar industry is consolidating. Under the deal, Wacker will supply purified silicon to Schott Wacker who will make wafers and sell them to Schott who will make the solar cells. The joint venture will also sell wafer to other solar cell makers.

Picture a liquid fuel that is derived from the same feedstocks as cellulosic ethanol (switchgrass, sugar cane, corn stover) but contains 50% more energetic content and is made via a process that uses 65% less energy.

SolFocus, a company spun off from Xerox's Palo Alto Research Park, is building arrays of solar panels around this honeycomb design. Each dish magnifies the light 500 times and focuses it on very high-efficiency cells.

A week after a slew of popular Web sites were knocked offline temporarily by a power outage in San Francisco, the data center for the Web sites has finally disclosed what went wrong. Basically, backup generators made by a Dutch company called Hitec failed to work, according to an update posted to the Web site of data center 365 Main. Here's what happened: transformer breakers at a San Francisco Pacific Gas & Electric power station unexpectedly opened, causing a power surge that cut off electricity to a portion of the city. (PG&E does not know why the breakers opened.) Three out of 10 of 365 Main's 2.1-megawatt backup generators failed to start up, cutting power to equipment of more than 40 percent of the data center's customers for up to 45 minutes.

Honda's natural gas Civic GX, which debuted in 2006 in California but is now becoming available in other parts of the country, just may be the cleanest mainstream car on the road. At least the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) thinks so. The nonprofit group . . . put the Civic GX at the top of its 2007 environmentally friendly car list, edging out Toyota's hybrid Prius. The natural gas-fueled Civic scored slightly better than the Prius on fuel economy and reduced emissions in ACEEE's battery of tests. It also scored better in terms of the pollution generated in the manufacturing processes.