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With the vast coal reserves still untapped in the U.S., companies are taking this "dirty" fuel and turning it into a viable green resource.Green coal might sound like an oxymoron, but according to Tim Vail, CEO of Synthesis Energy, coal can be environmentally-friendly, depending on the process -- and if there is a use for the CO2 by-product. "Our process (Synthesis Energy) is definitely a clean process. We don't combust coal; we convert it in a high-pressure, high temperature environment. If we don't combust the coal in the first place, we don't create the set of regulated emissions normally associated with coal." But the question remains: What about the harmful CO2 emissions? Synthesis Energy may not produce the harmful emissions normally associated with coal, but CO2 is produced through their conversion process. "We do produce CO2, the difference being that we have already captured the CO2 as part of the process, and we can deliver it at very high levels of purity and under pressure. So if there is a use for the CO2, such as for an enhanced oil recovery, we can supply the necessary resources. And if there isn't a use, we look for sequestration opportunities to be able to order to store CO2." If you're pondering over the necessity of coal use, Christopher Poirier of CoalTek breaks it down quite nicely. "Fifty-two percent of our existing infrastructure and power generation in the U.S. comes from coal. Here in the U.S. alone, we produce and consume about 1.2 billion tons of coal a year, and the number is growing, not shrinking. So it is an enormous domestic resource for us -- the U.S. being a wellspring of 28% of the world's reserves. There is, by some estimates, more energy in the ground in the state of Wyoming than there is energy in the ground of the entire Middle East." "We are the Saudi Arabia of coal." Erik Straser of Mohr Davidow Ventures gives us a poignant and amusing analogy for the levels of the fossil fuels. "If you think of natural gases as being the champagne of fossil fuels, oil is the wine, and coal is basically the beer. So when we use natural gas to upgrade oil to be put into refineries, we basically use champagne to make wine at best, but not usually beer." Straser believes that technology will be used to "focus on attacking the large, lowest commodity priced of hydrocarbon," to convert the low-rank coals into hydrocarbons that can be used for either transportation or as a natural gas. We can expect great things from the coal family of fuels, as this new class of companies continues to innovate and use it as an efficient, clean energy source. By Jessica Chung

Dr. Craig Venter revealed how his company is recombining DNA to create new sources of rapidly diminishing resources. When Synthetic Genomics CEO Craig Venter hit the stage at GoingGreen 2008 to discuss his company's mind-boggling scientific achievements and plans for the future, he sounded like a science-fiction novel come to life. But Venter, one of the major participants in the human genome project, is all about the reality of using DNA to manipulate and create new species and organisms that will supply us with much-needed chemicals. How does he take the things we don't need or have created an alarming overabundance of (carbon dioxide, nitrogen, methane) and turn them into the things we do need? By creating new "life" from genetic code modules. His laboratory has built an immense database of genes -- more than 20 million and growing -- that can be combined into genetic design components. These components are instrumental in create new species that are tailored to behave in a predictable fashion. Listing several plants that adapt well to genetic modification or "improvement," Venter acknowledges micro-algae represents the best in terms of potential. Most plantstocks used for oil production have a limited cultivation region and often take up arable land better used for food or livestock production. Engineering plants to grow in other regions is one answer, but not, Venter says, the best use of the synthetic genomics process. Nothing compares to the potential yield numbers represented by various types of micro-algaes. The company has already produced a micro-algae that feeds on CO2 and sunlight that directly produces fourth-generation fuels. The challenge is finding sufficient capital to create the industrial mechanisms for growing these micro-algae in abundant quantities. The question of how you create the micro-organism and still afford to feed it is an excellent one. Venter says that by using and creating autotropes (cells that maintain themselves completely from inorganic materials), the company can refine the lifecycle processes of the target micro-organisms to exist solely on abundant inorganic materials. As with all most scientific achievements of this magnitude, the potential for "good" is extraordinary. But, as we've seen time and time again in our checkered history, the best intentions can often have the most disastrous results. Are we in affect borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, and thereby setting ourselves up for a catastrophic Andromeda Strain type apocalypse, or have we embarked on a brave new world of scientific discovery that will lift us out of our current environmental malaise and into a golden age of discovery that will have far-reaching positive affects on our planet. By Nicole Freeman

The price tag on water for crops will drive water technology from agriculture into the industrial and municipal sectors. GE's Rengarajan Ramesh categorically states that if a technology is adopted for agriculture, it is immediately scalable to any other application or industry. Read more: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/29338

AlwaysOn presents the second annual GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies list, featuring the leading private greentech companies in 2008. The full list is available at: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/28868

Author: BeetTV Added: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:53:41 -0800 Duration: 273Thursday, August 07, 2008 Pre-Roll Ads Predominate in Online Video Advertising Mix Consumers may find pre-roll ads annoying, but they're still the highest-performing asset and the model favored by large TV advertisers, according to Jayant Kadambi, CEO of video ad network YuMe. Kadambi says that overlay ads, which are banners at the bottom of the screen, perform-second best and get a good viewer response because they're non-intrusive. According to a comScore press release, YuMe had 59 million unique visitors in the month of June and was ranked as the 32nd largest ad network in the country. (In the clip, Kadambi cites numbers that match up with comScore's initial press release, which has since been revised.) We caught with him at the AlwaysOn conference at Stanford last month. --Kelsey Blodget, Associate Producer http://www.beet.tv/2008/08/video-advertisi.html

Author: BeetTV Added: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:53:41 -0800 Duration: 273Thursday, August 07, 2008 Pre-Roll Ads Predominate in Online Video Advertising Mix Consumers may find pre-roll ads annoying, but they're still the highest-performing asset and the model favored by large TV advertisers, according to Jayant Kadambi, CEO of video ad network YuMe. Kadambi says that overlay ads, which are banners at the bottom of the screen, perform-second best and get a good viewer response because they're non-intrusive. According to a comScore press release, YuMe had 59 million unique visitors in the month of June and was ranked as the 32nd largest ad network in the country. (In the clip, Kadambi cites numbers that match up with comScore's initial press release, which has since been revised.) We caught with him at the AlwaysOn conference at Stanford last month. --Kelsey Blodget, Associate Producer http://www.beet.tv/2008/08/video-advertisi.html

Author: BeetTV Added: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:53:27 -0800 Duration: 220Tuesday, August 05, 2008 Going Deep on Video Viewing Metrics: Visible Measures Tracks Audience Engagement When online video watchers pause, rewind, and play, Internet video measurement firm Visible Measures knows. The company has developed software that can be integrated with video players to measure not just video views, but audience engagement. Once there are standard metrics for online video ads, publishers could "see bigger ad buys coming online," Visible Measures CEO Brian Shin says. Most online ad dollars are currently spent on generating ad clicks, and most offline dollars are spent on brand awareness marketing like television commercials, according to Shin. To demonstrate the effectiveness of brand awareness online, Visible measures works with both publishers ad advertisers to distribute creative content across 40 video-sharing sites and measure the true reach of viral ad campaigns. I interviewed Brian at the AlwaysOn conference last month. --Kelsey ...

Author: BeetTV Added: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:53:27 -0800 Duration: 220Tuesday, August 05, 2008 Going Deep on Video Viewing Metrics: Visible Measures Tracks Audience Engagement When online video watchers pause, rewind, and play, Internet video measurement firm Visible Measures knows. The company has developed software that can be integrated with video players to measure not just video views, but audience engagement. Once there are standard metrics for online video ads, publishers could "see bigger ad buys coming online," Visible Measures CEO Brian Shin says. Most online ad dollars are currently spent on generating ad clicks, and most offline dollars are spent on brand awareness marketing like television commercials, according to Shin. To demonstrate the effectiveness of brand awareness online, Visible measures works with both publishers ad advertisers to distribute creative content across 40 video-sharing sites and measure the true reach of viral ad campaigns. I interviewed Brian at the AlwaysOn conference last month. --Kelsey ...

Author: BeetTV Added: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:53:27 -0800 Duration: 204Friday, August 01, 2008 China's Video Sharing Sites are Self-Censored, China Watcher Rebecca Fannin Chinese video sharing sites like Tudou and Youku are proliferating and growing quickly. Recent data has shown that China now has 253 million Internet users--more than any other country. So, how are these sites kept from publishing what the government might see as inappropriate? They have internal censors, says veteran China watcher Rebecca Fannin, author of Silicon Dragon and blogger for The Huffington Post. Rebecca tells us that China's technology and innovation engine is beginning to ramp up and is becoming an investment opportunity for U.S. venture capitalists. Today, David Barboza at The New York Times reports on innovation in corporate China. I spoke with Rebecca at the AlwaysOn conference last week at Stanford. Before writing her book and blogging about China, she was an editor at Advertising Age and Red Herring. --- Andy Plesser, Executive ...

Author: BeetTV Added: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:53:27 -0800 Duration: 161Monday, August 04, 2008 Kaltura Will Bring Collaborative Video to Wikipedia The open-source TV platform Kaltura will bring to video what Wiki brought to text. Later this year, users will be able to post videos into Wikipedia entries and modify them with Kaltura's award-winning collaborative editing tools, CEO Ron Yekutiel says. Kaltura's partnership with the Wikimedia foundation will bring interactive video to Wikipedia's 207 million unique visitors, but any site can use Kaltura's video editing, annotating, uploading, searching, remixing and sharing functionalities. Users can also access Kaltura's store of re-mixable video content aggregated from its member sites. Networks Explore Open-Source Options, Innovate In-house Although proprietary video platforms like Brightcove and Move Networks have landed many of the big-network clients, the industry is headed toward an open-source approach, Daisy Whitney at TVWeek reports. This doesn't mean that Kaltura will necessarily ...

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Verizon wants machine-to-machine devices to run on the company's open wireless network, according to VP of Open Development Anthony Lewis. Automated homes, where "appliances can talk to each other" on the wireless network and let repairmen know when they need fixing, are "around the corner," he says. In March, Verizon launched its open development initiative to let devices made by other companies run on its network--a marked change from its former restrictive policies. But CNET criticized the initiative as not truly open, since Verizon has to certify a device before it can get online. Verizon certified the first third-party device this month, but isn't the handset with cheap international calling that industry watchers had hoped for, The AP reported. It's a modem that measures storage containers with a sensor and reports to a control center when they are running low.Lewis says devices can be certified in a "very quick, very low cost manner," and that Verizon wants customers to have access to more devices and the freedom to download different types of applications.Right now, though, the company seems focused on using the open network to connect machines rather than people. I interviewed Lewis at the AlwaysOn conference at Stanford last week, where he was a speaker.--Kelsey Blodget, Associate Producer

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