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Feds must step in or renewable energy will have nowhere to go, says MIT report

Building wind and solar farms is an important part of building a new green grid, but a calm night stops their energy generation cold. It’s just as important to research and build green energy st

US Energy Sec. Granholm still ‘bullish’ Congress can ink ‘significant’ climate deal

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said she is still "hopeful, positive and in fact bullish" that Congress can agree on "a significant push into clean energy."

Google announces 18 new renewable energy deals

Google today announced its largest package of renewable energy deals yet. Worth a total of 1,600-megawatts, the package includes 18 deals in the U.S., Chile and Europe. This brings Google’s curr

Taylor Farms wants to make food without fossil fuels

As industries go, agriculture represents one of the worst environmental offenders. Besides all the fertilizers, pesticides and water they use, farms also burn a lot of fossil fuels and money to keep t

South Korea Pledges $8.2 Billion For Offshore Wind Farms

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/korea.jpg" />VC funding for cleantech startups <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/01/us-cleantech-investments-q3-2010/">tumbled</a> in th

Alternative Energy: A Guide To Greening Your Home

<img src='http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/green-house-1.jpg' class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" />Alternative energy is a growing market, and though many states offer tax credits, reba

Terra-Gen Power Closes $1.2B in Financing to Build Nation's Largest Wind Farm

<img src='http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/terra-gen-logo.jpg' class="snap_nopreview shot2" alt="Terra-Gen Logo" /><a href="http://http://www.crunchbase.com/company/terra-gen-power">Ter

MSI Wind series netbooks go multi-platinum. So here's another one.

MSI has sold millions of their Wind series of netbooks. Let’s all give them a round of applause shall we? But what does this mean for you guys? Good things, as luck would have it. Instead of som

MSI readying 12-inch MSI Wind U230 with AMD Neo CPU, Windows 7

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/u230.jpg" alt="u230" />It looks like MSI is getting set to launch a 12-inch Windows 7 netbook from its U200 series. You'll recall that th

MSI Wind U110 ECO promises 15+ hour battery

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/U1102.jpg">Okay, here’s the MSI Wind U110 ECO. It’s a netbook, through and through, with the added twist of a nine-cell battery good

MSI’s 12-inch Wind U210 gets official pricing and availability

MSI’s gone the AMD Neo route with the Wind U210, available now for $429 at Amazon and Newegg. The U210’s got a 12.1-inch screen with a 1366×768 resolution, 1.6GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM, 250GB hard

AMD-based MSI Wind coming soon, touchscreen tablet next year

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/U210.jpg" alt="U210" />MSI's got a 12-inch Wind netbook rolling out to the US in the next few weeks. The U210 will feature an AMD CPU, though

MSI Wind U123 now available, features six- or nine-cell battery

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/Text%20%281%29.jpg" alt="wind" />Hey, if you guys are thinking of starting your own netbook line -- and why not, everyone else is doing it --

MSI Wind U115 clears 25 hours with nine-cell battery option

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/msi_hybrid_270x212.jpg">Johannes over at German site Eee-PC.de was able to push a nine-cell MSI Wind U115 – the one with the hybrid SSD

More details on ‘super long’ battery life Wind U115

<img title="wind" style="display:inline;" height="495" alt="wind" src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/wind1.jpg" width="630" />Here are some more details on that MSI Wind U115 Hy

MSI: Touchscreen Wind at CES, ‘shocking’ 13.3-inch affordable ultraportable, no Linux in the U.S.

Aw, there I go giving away the entire post in the title again. I should have made it something like “What’s in your city’s water supply? MSI knows! Full story on the ten o’clock newscast” or

CrunchDeals: 120GB MSI Wind with XP for $299

Hark! Here’s a good deal on the MSI Wind. For one week only, starting today, MSI is offering a $50 mail-in rebate on the Wind with XP, 120GB hard drive, and 1GB of RAM. Buy.com has them for $299 aft

Replace the MSI Wind’s touchpad for $8

Apparently MSI has recently swapped out the Synaptics touchpad on the MSI Wind with a touchpad from Sentellic. What’s the difference, you might ask? Well, that thing you’re able to do with Synapti

Febot conceptually charges your batteries with the power of wind!

This little guy, the Febot, charges your batteries, literally. Like, it literally charges Duracell (and other, lesser brands) batteries. Well, “literally” is a bit strong, as it’s only a con

My Humps: Check out this nine cell netbook battery!

Holy crap, you could drive a truck under that thing. That’s a nine cell battery for the MSI Wind netbook, which is available on Ebay’s UK site according to a post in the MsiWind.net forums. The it
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