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ClearEdge Wants To Put A Refrigerator-Sized Fuel Cell In Your House

If you have $60,000 to spare and like to show off to your neighbors, ClearEdge Power may have the product for you: a giant fuel cell that can power up your house, and perhaps take you entirely off the grid. Bloom Energy burst onto the clean energy scene last year with the Bloom Energy Server (you know it as the Bloom Box), a so-called fuel cell "power plant in a box" that can run on natural gas, hydrogen, or biogas. Bloom has cornered the big business fuel cell market, with installations at eBay's headquarters, multiple AT&T sites, Adobe's headquarters, and more

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Publisher’s Note: Celebrating the Power of Partnership

A sincere thanks to our marketing partners for recognizing the economic heroes we call entrepreneurs For 30 years, Inc. and our marketing partners have celebrated Inc.'s rankings of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Never have the successes of small-business operators been as significant as they are today.

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Can We Squeeze Any More Fuel Out Of Air Travel?

Airlines are rushing to adapt to rising fuel costs, but most efficiency gains have already been made. If gas prices continue to rise, it may require a full rethinking of how we fly

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Tiny Nanometals May Soon Find Their Way Under Your Hood

New advances in steel nanoparticles may lead to cars that are lighter (and thus faster and more fuel efficient) than those made with conventional materials, but just as safe in a crash.

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Biobutanol: The Aviation Fuel Of the Future?

A close chemical relative of the fuel in butane cigarette lighters may be what helps keep air travel viable in a post-petroleum world. As affordable petroleum becomes scarcer, it's easy to imagine switching to electric cars or outfitting hydrogen-powered ships with supplementary sails. But it's harder to picture what we might run jumbo jets on in the future

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Fuel Economy Standards Necessary But Not Sufficient to Cut Oil Demand

Simply forcing the U.S. automotive industry to comply with tougher fuel economy standards won't be enough to create substantial cuts in either greenhouse gas emissions or oil use, says a new report from the National Research Council

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Biodegradable Products Are Good For Landfills, But Bad For The Climate

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. A new study finds that while biodegradable products help reduce mass in landfills, they may be worsening global warning. Luckily, there's a solution: Make earth-friendly plastics that actually disintegrate more slowly.

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The Skylon: Britain’s Bad-Ass Rocketplane And Possible Shuttle Successor

As NASA settles for a tried and trusted solution, Britain's plans for a next-gen Space Shuttle inch forward with the Skylon: A black, future-tech spaceplane that absolutely looks the part. The Skylon has, in a way, been some three decades in development already--stretching almost back to the days of Apollo, curiously also the model for NASA's future spacecraft . But European and British regulators have just now given approval to its design.

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The Unbearable Lightness Of UPS’s Plastic Trucks

UPS is testing trucks made of an ultra-light material that makes them more fuel efficient than their sheet-aluminum counterparts. UPS has the unfortunate task of figuring out how to deliver packages without bleeding cash in our resource-constrained world

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Will You Be Taxed for Driving?

States, fearing that more energy-efficient cars mean less money to maintain roads, begin testing a mileage-based tax. I was driving in Minneapolis several weeks ago when I heard on the local radio news that Minnesota would be conducting a study to research whether it made sense for the state to start charging drivers a mileage-based tax

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The Gas Engine Is Not Dead Yet, Thanks To Diesel, Jaguar

Despite the ongoing rush of alternative-fuel tech, the gasoline engine's having a moment thanks to advances from Jaguar and the Department of Energy. Jaguar CX75 million-dollar hybrid Last year Jaguar teased an incredible concept car, the CX75, that had an electric engine in each wheel and a pair of high-performance gas turbines in its truck to provide the electrical power

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Obama Forms Panel to Improve Fracking Safety

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a series of high-profile natural gas drilling spills, the Energy Department named a panel to recommend ways to improve the safety of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that has expanded the country's potential to extract the fuel.

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Is There a Future for Airships?

The notion that airships represent the future of air cargo is being revived by a new generation of entrepreneurs some 75 years after a catastrophic fireball brought the industry to a screeching halt. Far safer than the Hindenburg, whose tragic 1937 docking remains an icon of aerospace gone wrong, these modern airships are a hybrid of lighter-than-air and fixed-wing aircraft

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