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New work from researchers at Denmark's National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Risø DTU, is expected to bring smarter wind turbines to commercial wind farms in the near future. 

One of the best reasons for writing about alternate energy is that you learn about all these cool new technologies. Even the ones that sound kind of smelly (turning food waste into energy), are still pretty cool.

What if you could build a window that changes color the same way you change from clear glasses to sunglasses?

Biobutanol and cellulosic biomass may sound like words your high school biology teacher used to confuse you. But, they are actually part of the cutting edge in biofuel technology.

The Cleantech Open recently announced the winners of this year’s competition at the third annual Cleantech Open Expo and Awards Gala in San Francisco. Dubbed the “Academy Awards of Clean Technology,” the event marks the grand finale of the Cleantech Open's yearlong business competition.

If you went to the American Southwest this fall perhaps you got to see Al Gore and Sheryl Crow. But they weren’t the main attractions. Green building took center stage. The former vice-president and the singer/songwriter were on hand this month for the world’s largest conference dedicated to green building--Greenbuild 2009.

Dallas, Texas-based Carbon Sciences Inc. (OTC:CABN) announced an important technical breakthrough that uses synthetic biology to achieve a pathway for an industrial scale-up transforming carbon dioxide into fuel.

Did your parents ever tell you to not to wear black in the summer heat because it would only make you hotter?

Cool Energy, Inc. has designed a solar system to that can provide solar power to homes in cold and cloudy climates.