EPA’s highest environmental award honors renewable BioForming® process for production of low carbon green gasoline and other hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals Virent Energy Systems, Inc. has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. Virent’s BioForming process, a game-changing technology that...
The opponents of nuclear energy in the United States were almost giddy earlier this year when President Obama slashed the budget for a proposed waste storage site in Nevada. Surely, they thought, the inevitable demise of the Yucca Mountain project would end silly talk of...
Despite the continued slow economy throughout 2008, Dane County's technology industries continued to add to their ranks at a steady pace and combined to generate nine percent more revenue in 2008, according to the 2009 Greater Madison, Wisconsin Area Directory of High-Tech Companies published by...
“Our hope is to increase availability of quality alternative fuels” Manitowoc WI - Located at Bio Blend Fuels in Manitowoc, WI, American Fuel Blending Systems offers its first Bio-Diesel Blending Station. This unit is a portable, above ground and self contained dispensing system that live blends...
Baird last week announced that it has launched a Clean Technology focus, adding several research analysts and investment bankers with deep expertise. “Clean technology is an area of tremendous growth and, in many ways, a natural extension of several of Baird's existing areas of focus,” said...
In 2003, when Foundation Capital, a venture capital firm, started looking for new investors for Silver Spring Networks, one of its portfolio of companies, it was rejected by every firm it called. Silver Spring Networks puts network cards in electric meters to more closely track power...
Prodesse, Inc. announced today the results of in silico testing of its ProFlu+ Assay that demonstrate the Assay detects the currently circulating swine flu virus. ProFlu+ detects and differentiates Influenza A, Influenza B and RSV. Prodesse is currently attempting to procure isolates so...
BROOKFIELD - IFS, the global enterprise applications company, today announces the first customer deployment of its recently launched Eco-footprint Management tool. IV Produkt, a leading Swedish manufacturer of environmentally friendly air handling units is working to reduce the effect its corporate activities and products have on...
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Wisconsin Energy Corp. CEO Gale Klappa told CNBC’s Jim Cramer this afternoon that he believes it will be another 10 to 12 years before technology to capture carbon from old coal-fired power plants will be available on a widespread scale. Cramer invited Klappa on his "Mad...