The East Coast offshore wind farm backbone that made headlines when Google announced it had become an investor, has now passed a key regulatory hurdle, though there are many more hurdles ahead. Read more »
Offshore wind power will get a $50.5 million research boost and dedicated “Wind Energy Area” in the mid-Atlantic region under a new federal plan. Google and co-investors in a $5 billion offshore wind transmission project will be pleased. Read more »
At the beginning of a new project, it’s easy for the freelance remote worker to leave the decision-making about the project to the client. Often, I find myself thinking, “Well, they know what they want; I’ll let them explain it.” Read more »
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Jordan Hoffner will leave his position as head of content partnerships at YouTube to join Ben Silverman’s new content endeavor at IAC. The announcement was made yesterday at YouTube, and paidContent was the first to report it. Coming from NBC, Hoffner was an injection of big […] Read more »
Cash for Clunkers Fraud, Already: The Department of Transportation warns consumers and dealers to watch out for scammers implying you need to register with them to be eligible for vouchers under the new cash for clunkers program. “This is completely untrue.” — The Truth About Cars […] Read more »
DOE Details More Funding Opps: The Department of Energy today detailed some of how more than $300 million in investments funded by the stimulus package and the agency’s annual appropriations will be divvied up among clean energy technologies including carbon capture from coal, solar power and […] Read more »
Is that the wind you’re hearing? No, it’s a collective sigh of relief from UK wind advocates. Plans for the world’s largest offshore wind farm have been given the green light from investors — Danish utility DONG Energy, German energy company E.ON and Abu Dhabi’s clean […] Read more »
Sure, offshore wind is more expensive than that captured on land, but it’s often windier out there on the water, which means more power and more money generated from selling it. Predicting where the wind will grow stronger over time would be a neat trick to […] Read more »
The governor of Rhode Island signed a final agreement yesterday with Deepwater Wind for a big offshore wind farm for the tiny state, announcing that construction is expected to start in late 2010. That puts the $1.5 billion, 400 MW project in line to be the […] Read more »
Wistia, a startup focused on providing online video services for businesses, came out of its “under the radar” mode this week. The sector it’s in has certainly gotten more crowded since the company was founded two and half years ago. The Wistia business offering is pretty […] Read more »
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Regulators are preparing to draft rules for the development of offshore wind projects in the Great Lakes, even though no official projects have been proposed just yet. Cuyahoga County in Ohio is spending $1 million on an offshore wind task force to create a feasibility study […] Read more »
Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s multi-billion clean technology initiative, has today taken a 20 percent stake in the London Array, the world’s largest planned offshore wind farm. When completed, the project will produce a full gigawatt of power. Read more »
Garden State Offshore Energy, a joint venture between utility Public Service Enterprise Group Renewable Generation and Deepwater Wind, was selected by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities today to build an offshore wind farm far off the Jersey coastline. Read more »
As Republicans in Congress clamor for offshore drilling, Rhode Island’s Republican governor, Don Carcieri, has been looking to tap into offshore wind. The state will reportedly announce today that it’s selected Deepwater Wind for an offshore wind energy project that could cost up to $2 billion. […] Read more »
There aren’t any turbines in the water yet, but Bluewater Wind is on its way to building what will likely be America’s first offshore wind farm. The wind energy developer signed a contract yesterday to provide 200 megawatts of offshore wind power to Delaware utility Delmarva […] Read more »
FON showed great promise, attacking the fragmented wifi hotspot market and placing pressure on 3G broadband providers by harnessing the energy of the very people that would benefit from its service. The promise of a disruptive user-owned global wifi network was a large part of the company’s marketing, playing on the iconography and language of revolution. With $22m in funding from Google, Skype and venture capitalists, the company seemed poised for success…so what went wrong? Read more »
Do you work in the cloud? There is no question about the rise of importance in keeping your information in the cloud and some folks are embracing working in the cloud. The ramp up of Google Apps fits with the philosophy of keeping your documents in […] Read more »
Offering bundles of television channels no one wants to watch along with Showtime and HBO is one of the many things detractors say is wrong with the cable TV business. Many consumers would rather pick and choose channels they want and pay accordingly. The cable companies […] Read more »
* NewTeeVee: Bolt.com is bolted * NewTeeVee: Truveo relaunches as video search destination. * NewTeeVee: Get ready for Facebook Diaries * WebWorkerDaily: How to keep your public WiFi sessions secure * FoundRead: Winners do quit, and quitters do win. * Earth2Tech: Biodiesels endangering Gummy Bears * […] Read more »
The key to a market strategy is to balance how you will acquire users against how many resources you have at your disposal (money and time). In the case of a community site, you have two communities to attract – the users and the customers. Your […] Read more »
The New York Times says Pentagon is going to spend nearly $200 billion on a mostly private network which will provide real time information and imagery to soldiers in the battlefield using satellites and other technologies. Peter Teets, under secretary of the Air Force calls it […] Read more »
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