As Google rose to dominate the web during this decade, it therefore invested a lot of energy into a rival web browser to IE, called Firefox.
When Rob Wilder, chief executive of WilderShares, which manages clean-energy indices, started a Web site for his hydrogen fuel cell research effort a few years ago, he was inundated with ideas.
Obvius has pioneered a portfolio of plug-and-play data-collection and communications applications based on an open architecture, which allow users to monitor electric, water, gas, environmental and renewable energy information through a single, web-accessible platform.
The new energy development is "almost a spider web coming down to the forest, " said Nels Johnson of the Pennsylvania chapter of The Nature Conservancy, which estimates the state could see thousands of miles of new pipelines over the next two decades.
EarthFirst, John Stanton's firm, claims to be at "the forefront of alternative energy sources, " according to its Web site, but still gets most of its revenue from moneylosing waste-disposal and biodiesel-import businesses, and recently filed to allow Laurus Capital to sell 76 million shares, whose proceeds would be used to retire convertible debt held by Laurus.
Comcast's XFINITY Home Security service provides intrusion and fire protection in addition to a host of interactive features including home monitoring, home management and energy management services, with the added benefits of web and mobile access.
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And while these appliances aren't exactly sporting their own Web browsers, they're considerably more energy efficient.
Second, the Web has drained off all of the creative energy from the boxed-software business.
An aerial photo on the web site of U.S. Sustainable Energy Corp. shows a plant in Natchez, Miss. where the company says it will soon begin producing 1.5 million gallons a day of biodiesel-like fuel from soybeans.
"You'd be led to believe that you put in real-time pricing and a nice Web site and immediately get a 15% reduction in energy use, " says Accenture's Guthridge.
If they had taken a chunk of the energy that went into the champion-challenger tests and put it against faster web load, the business lift could be much greater.
Thousands of CNN Web site users voted to award her the honor for her matchless energy working with Jordan's young people, ahead of luminaries such as peace advocate Kofi Annan, activist Wangari Maathai and environmentalist James Lovelock.
Blanco plans to turn the case study into a Web-based tool to help other companies calculate and potentially reduce the energy consumption of products moved over long distances by multiple means of transport.
Meantime, ibm executive Allan Schurr expects retailers like Home Depot eventually to stock simple ZigBee devices that look like lamp timers and can turn energy-hogging appliances on and off according to commands that consumers send over the Web.
Meantime, ibm executive Allan Schurr expects retailers like Home Depot (nyse: HD - news - people ) eventually to stock simple ZigBee devices that look like lamp timers and can turn energy-hogging appliances on and off according to commands that consumers send over the Web.
Software tools, in the form of centralized, Web-based management applications and platforms, are making buildings smarter and more energy-efficient by ensuring that lighting better matches the way we work today.
That device will use the color LCD touch screen that made the iPhone a success, chewing far more energy than electronic ink but giving users a more versatile experience than mere reading, including Web browsing and video.
So for those Americans who are watching this, who are listening, who want to help -- and everyone's help and resources and energy at this time are critically important -- you can go to the White House Web site at www.whitehouse.gov to see what you can do to support our friends in Haiti in this time of urgent need.
What if you could log on to your electric company's Web site to find out when power is cheapest so you could can plan your energy use accordingly?
The firm on Friday declined to disclose to The New York Sun the names of its clients, but its Web site says they include industry leaders and foreign direct investors in sectors that include energy.
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