So what we are seeing this summer from the Tea Party is the sad old story coming true -- he who pays the piper calls the tune, and monopoly energy and agribusiness are the paymasters behind the far right -- not Frederick Hayek and Ayn Rand.

I have been anxiously awaiting an alternative to conventional electric power and the economic benefits that follow. Of course solar comes to mind, and while I love solar power, it can be expensive and because of the space requirements for panel installation, and is not for everybody.

The stock market fell yesterday as unemployment rose.  This particular tick is driven by the economic cycle: Are we are or are we not coming out ...

A quiet fuel cell in your neighborhood beats an old coal-fired clunker or a jet-engine-style natural-gas plant anytime -- not to mention the larger menace of a nuke down the block.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A richly funded clean-energy startup is keeping critical parts of its business plan secret as it launches its first product a...

Bloom Energy's KR Sridhar wants to change the world. Today, after eight years in stealth mode, the company unveils its revolutionary fuel cell and the world will decide if he's a visionary or a dreamer.

BLOOM BOX: Bloom Energy is a secretive Silicon Valley startup that is working on a new way to produce cleaner energy. Its first product is a huge box ...

Bloom Energy unveiled their much anticipated fuel cell Wednesday. The secretive California start-up released details on the Bloom Box this afternoon a...

The Bloom Box launch was praised by representatives from major companies and officials including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The much anticipated B...

One afternoon last May in Menlo Park, Calif., a venture capitalist named Ray Lane led me from his office to the parking lot, where an automobile had b...