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Entrepreneurs Wade Into the "Dead Zone"

Russell Gold, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 12, 2009 at 9:10 am PT

Every spring, fertilizer runoff from the U.S. Mississippi River floods into the Gulf of Mexico, causing a massive algae bloom that leads to a giant oxygen-deprived “dead zone” where fish can’t survive.

PG&E: The "E" Stands for Excre … Never Mind.

John Paczkowski in News on March 6, 2008 at 12:47 am PT

The future of renewable energy is anaerobic manure digestion? That statement sounds like a bunch of BS (sorry, had to), but according to utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PCG) and BioEnergy Solutions, it’s anything but. Soon California will be lighting and heating its homes with power derived from cow dung. Yesterday PG&E and BioEnergy Solutions [...]

PG&E: The “E” Stands for Excre … Never Mind.

John Paczkowski in News on March 6, 2008 at 12:47 am PT

I Heart Biofuels

Kara Swisher in News on July 17, 2007 at 4:13 am PT

While this is not exactly a “digital” story–we at AllThingsD.com like to think we have our finger on the pulse of the latest trend, including the lean, mean green one. (We had well-known Silicon Valley VC Vinod Khosla come and talk about alternative energy at D4, in fact.) Yesterday brought news that Om Malik was [...]

Oh, Everybody Loves Google, Alright …

John Paczkowski in News on May 25, 2007 at 11:01 am PT

No, SlurryCarb's About as Far From a Nutrition Bar as You Can Get …

John Paczkowski in News on May 25, 2007 at 6:14 am PT

“Time to pay the electric bill” may soon supplant “I’m going to see a man about a horse” as the most popular bathroom-break euphemism–in Los Angeles County, anyway. Working with a group of SoCal sanitation districts, EnerTech Environmental is building the country’s first commercial biomass-to-energy plant. Once finished, the facility will convert 675 wet tons [...]