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 American carmaker Ford looks to tap Google’s cloud computing technology to achieve fuel and energy efficiency for their vehicles. Researchers in the auto company have been tinkering for two years with the Google Prediction Application Processing Interface, a system which accesses Google’s machine-learning algorithms to analyze historic data and predict outcomes based from them.
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 Singapore set to introduce Southeast Asia’s first label showing the carbon footprint of commodities |
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 The United States and Brazil fortified their mutual cooperation in biofuels promotion, guaranteeing that the latter will be given support to enrich its sugarcane ethanol industry and at the same time ensuring that the former will have access to the latter’s vast renewable biofuel resources. |
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 United States trade representative Ron Kirk said China agreed to end one of its subsidy programs for Chinese wind power equipment manufacturers to settle a complaint the United States filed in the World Trade Organization last year. Last December, the trade office filed a case with the W.T.O |
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 General Electric Company made its latest move into the solar market by buying a minority stake in California-based solar thermal company ESolar to develop power plants that combine solar thermal energy and natural gas. The investment gives G.E. an exclusive license to combine ESolar’s tower-based solar thermal technology into its new 510-megawatt natural gas-powered power plant, the FlexEfficiency 50, which G.E. unveiled in May.
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Nairobi, 8 June 2011 – Declines in marine and coastal ecosystems due to human activities such as overfishing and pollution could be reversed if organisations, communities and other stakeholders adopt a more integrated approach to managing coastal environments. Closer partnerships between different marine users – such as fishing communities, the tourism industry and conservationists – can also help coastal communities become better prepared for natural disasters and the impacts of global |
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 Massachusetts-based startup General Compression secured part of a .5 million Series B financing for the development of its emerging power storage concept. The five-year-old company is developing a technology for storing unused energy from wind farms for activating air compression. The company said it is planning to spend on manufacturing capacity in response to possible orders.
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 Two weeks after pulling out from a 10-state regional greenhouse gas reduction program, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie now plans to cut back the state’s target on the amount of electricity it has to derive from renewable energy sources by 2021. The governor recommended reduction of the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard to 22.5 percent, saying the 30 percent goal set by his Democratic predecessor, Jon Corzine, was not achievable.
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 Energy storage startup Primus Power raised million in its latest financing round involving prominent venture investors for its unique energy storage system that can store large amounts of power better than current systems. The three-year-old California-based firm received funds from new investors I2BF Global Ventures and DBL Investors, a unit of J.P. Morgan, for its flow batteries.
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 Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change has finally decided to cut its subsidies for solar electricity by as much as 70 percent, a move aimed at protecting smaller installations especially in households. The decision was done while increasing the incentive rates for anaerobic digestion facilities. |
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