Here’s one that many CNET readers can enjoy: snap a photo of that dusty rat’s nest of wires under your desk. Best-case scenario, you win lunch in Beverly Hills and maybe influence green-tech policy. Green Plug’s mission is to create a universal hub to power consumer electronics. (Credit: Green Plug)

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Nearly every cellulosic ethanol company claims it will be able to produce fuel at $1 or less a gallon in a few years. William Roe, CEO of Coskata, in a meeting on Monday explained how his Warrenville, Ill., company will do it. It’s one of the more interesting processes out there, because it combines both [...]

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Energy utility executives say that the environment and greenhouse gas regulations top their worry list. Researcher Platts and consulting firm Capgemini on Tuesday published the results of a survey that asked 100 executives from the utilities industry what their biggest concerns are. Although there are no federal regulations to restrict greenhouse gas emissions, utility executives [...]

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Correction: a portable battery pack Horizon is working on with another manufacturer will run on the liquid fuel ethanol. The personal computer was famously derided as a “toy” when it entered the computing world. Some companies in the hydrogen fuel cell industry are counting on toys to make the much-ballyhooed hydrogen economy a reality, if [...]

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BOSTON–Bob Metcalfe thinks we’ll solve global warming if we take our cue from the Internet. Metcalfe, best known as a co-inventor of the Ethernet and now a venture capitalist at Polaris Venture Partners, on Wednesday laid out his vision of the “EnerNet,” the concept of applying the lessons of building the Internet to the energy [...]

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