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Is nuclear fusion close to becoming commercially viable? While the National Ignition Facility in Livermore is, by all accounts, behind schedule and overbudget, scientists in England are close to achie

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Posted 3 days ago

While Arnold was mugging for the cameras and lobbying to become Interior Secretary in an Obama adminstration at a Sunnyvale high tech event (actually at the dedication of a new solar array in a parkin

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Posted 4 days ago

If only oil refineries were portable. That has to be what Chevron is thinking these days. But, sadly you can't just pick up and move a refinery so Chevron's saga in Richmond, CA continues.For foreve

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Posted 5 days ago

Solyndra is breaking new ground in the rooftop solar market. The company claims its cylindrical solar tubes can produce more energy by capturing light from all angles. The comapny plans to roll them o

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Posted 6 days ago

PG&E's decision last week to crank up rates now in return for maybe not doing so in January hasn't scored the utility any public relations points, but at least it has built up lots of goodwill with it

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Posted 1 week ago

David Freeman comes out swinging in the San Francisco Chronice with a passionate defense of Prop 7. I'll let you draw your own conclusions:Mother Nature demands Californians pass Prop. 7S. David Freem

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Posted 1 week ago

SDG&E is beating back lawsuits over the last couple of wildfires while simultaneously facing the unfortunate reality that it will almost certainly have to face more wildfires in the future. What's a u

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Posted 1 week ago

PG&E has good news and bad news. The good news: there is a good chance rates won't go up on January 1, 2009, as originally planned. The bad news: they're going up today. Yesterday actually.Citing incr

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Posted 1 week ago

Clean Technology startups enjoyed another banner quarter in Q3, taking in $2.6 billion in venture capital investments, with 43% of that going to California companies. The most active investors were al

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Posted 1 week ago

Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger have an oped in today's LA Times that posits the theory that environmentalists got complacent and read too many of their own press clippings, allowing conserva