Sun Microsystems (JAVA) today announced the first servers that deliver the compute power of up to 64 individual systems on a single server. The company says the performance is six times better, on a per-watt basis, vs. competing products.The servers use Sun’s Solaris Operating System and virtualization technologies to help maximize the system. Warren Mootrey, [...]

  When corporations say they are going “carbon neutral,” they often focus first on cutting energy consumption within their own office buildings or data centers — a positive step, but one that often doesn’t look at the more far-reaching effect of their supply chains. So it’s a promising step that a group of big daddy firms [...]

  Craig Venter, the high-profile genetic researcher and cleantech entrepreneur, is possibly weeks away from announcing that he and a group of scientists have created the first new artificial life form on Earth, according to the Guardian. As in, today I made: a) brownies, b) a blog post, or c) a new artificial life form. Venter’s [...]

  Outsourcing IT Saves Energy: Outsourcing IT and datacenter functions can mean an energy savings of up to 40 percent, according to IDC — Business Green Blog.Clipper to Make a Big Ol’ Wind Turbine: Clipper Windpower said today that it plans to develop a 7.5 megawatt offshore turbine, and the U.K. government will put up some [...]

  Compared to cleantech funds like Braemar’s $250 million or Expansion’s $100 million, a low double-digit fundraising might not turn too many heads. But Greenhouse Capital Partners, which says today it has closed $11 million for a fund that will focus between half and three quarters of its resources on seed-stage cleantech startups, says smaller and [...]

  For two dollars, you could enjoy a hearty bottle of Trader Joe’s famous Two Buck Chuck, but it would hardly save the planet. Thanks to a group of clever MIT students, you may soon be able to take that lowly two bucks and do just that. The group of students, who go by the team [...]

  Back in February, BP Plc (BP) and UC Berkeley proposed a deal that could provide $500 million for research aimed at using genetic engineering to increase biofuel yields. The partnership was hailed by BP Group Chief Executive John Browne as “creat[ing] the discipline of energy biosciences.” Now, protestors on the famously liberal campus, largely from [...]

  First there’s uber investor Vinod Khosla with his burgeoning clean tech portfolio. Then father of the Ethernet, Bob Metcalfe joined the party. Now we have FON founder Martin Varvasky getting interested in solar farms. I guess with telecom operators deciding the fate of all telecom-related start-ups, the risks in green tech seem to be more [...]

  Now that corn-based ethanol is looking more and more unsustainable — and is the latest media punching bag — it’s time to make way for the next generation of biofuel startups. LS9, a San Carlos, Calif-based start-up that touts itself as a “renewable petroleum company” plans to announce on Tuesday that it has closed a [...]

  The bulb as we know it is dying a flickering death. OK, so that’s a tad dramatic but states and even entire continents are considering plans to ban the incandescent bulb. Here’s yet another sign: General Electric (GE) said late yesterday it will restructure its lighting business toward energy-efficient lighting technology, which will speed [...]