RBS Sits Down To Humble Pie
Bank pleas for an end to "public flogging" ahead of a stormy shareholders' meeting.
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Private Equity's Poison Pills
PE funds take public companies private and rehab them for resale. But do the companies emerge worse for wear?
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Chromasun to make solar air conditioner

Packing heat: a prototype of a solar collector designed to fuel industrial chillers.

(Credit: Chromasun)

Fledgling company Chromasun plans to put the sun's heat to work cooling commercial buildings.

Founder Peter Le Lievre established the company to apply concentrating solar power techniques used in utility-scale power plants on a ...

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What's the carbon footprint of your handwash?

A heat map gives a reading of how much energy is used in the supply chain and production of ingredients in a company's products.

(Credit: Planet Metrics)

Start-up Planet Metrics is developing software that could give consumers a better read on the embedded energy of everyday products.

The ...

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The Green House of the Future
What will the energy-efficient house of the future look like? The Journal asked four architects to design an energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable house without regard to cost, technology, aesthetics or the way we are used to living.

Source: wsj.com


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