Burning Man is filled with hackers, artists and makers of all walks. We thought we would search out the energy geeks and see how they were utilizing resources out in the middle of nowhere. The obvious, most abundant source of energy in Black Rock City is the Sun. Solar ...

There are so many words to describe Burning Man that it overwhelms me. If you’ve ever attended the annual desert gathering of artists, hackers, hippies and yuppies alike (it all happens about 100 miles north of Reno, Nev., in Black Rock City), then you know what I mean. ...

Don Irmen is sales manager for Renewable Energy Group, a central Iowa biodiesel plant and biodiesel processor harnessing the power of the soy bean. They sell SoyPOWER brand biodiesel to distributors so Americans can have cleaner burning fuels that help lessen our dependence on foreign oil.

What do you get when you combine hydrogen and methane? You get Hythane, an engineered alternative fuel blend patented by Hythane Company, LLC out of Littleton, Colo. David Egan, East Coast sales manager for the company, discusses the promise of a fuel that is more combustible and cleaner-burning than ...

Roxio, the company known for it’s CD and DVD burning software, has introduced a home video transcoding product called Crunch. I recently caught up with Vito Salvaggio, VP of product management for Roxio’s Mac products division, at the House of Shields in San Francisco. Vito shows how me ...

In the winter of 2005, Cynthia Shelton embarked on a journey not many of us would be keen on pursuing — a solo drive from California to Massachusetts in a 1973 Mercedes run on straight vegetable oil. She was successful in her journey — documented here — but came ...

Kevin Walsh, managing director and leader of GE Energy Financial Services’ renewable energy team, talks about GE’s energy renewable business in his keynote address at the Cleantech Venture Forum in New York.

The Cleantech Forum is right around the corner, February 19-22, in San Francisco. The San Francisco Cleantech Forum ...

Platforms are validated as partners develop solutions. Control4 invited a number of their key partners to display and show their solutions at CES. The solutions enhance and extend the lighting, climate, audio/visual, and security benefits. From Somfy’s solutions to manage window coverings and lighting, to iPort’s ...

Steve Koenig, senior manager, industry analysis, CEA, and Joseph Bates, director of research, CEA, led the final panel discussion of the day on October 17th: Five Burning Questions in the CE Industry. The panel combined quick audience surveys with videotaped consumer surveys, then analyzed the survey findings in terms of current CEA research. Tune in to this PodTech.net podcast to find out the answers to these burning questions:

Last Monday, Veer Bothra (seen here on the left) asked me to join in the monthly mixer he organises, called Mobile Monday. It’s loosely tied in with an eponymous event held around the world, an opportunity for mobile platform stakeholders to meet and talk about change … and more of the same.

Veer wanted me to talk about podcasting, not the nuts and bolts, but where it’s at and its relevance to the radio paradigm. That’s a juicy opportunity, I thought to myself, and so found myself making the difficult journey to North Mumbai (needs planning and a sort of instinctive feel for which combination of segments and modes of transport make it the least painful overall).