Remember when the dot.com bubble burst in 2000? Flash forward to 2011, when nearly everyone is online, Internet technology has become more accessible and fortunes continue to be made.

In a new report, Bill Gates, Chad Holliday and other business leaders argue that government investment in energy innovation is key to realizing a clean energy future.

With perfect hindsight, it's all too easy to see why Solyndra proved to be a bad bet.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, breakthroughs in climate technology are likely to come from developing countries.

As Republicans and Democrats appear willing to cut funding for energy innovation programs, a bipartisan group of senators have spoken out in support of maintaining funding for an agency that invests in game-changing research.

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The argument against natural gas got a boost this week, when a congressional investigation turned up evide...

Last week, President Obama told us in his 2011 State of the Union address that "we need to out-innovate the rest of the world", especially in clean energy technology. As it turns out, energy innovators across the country are already working on doing just that.

A new report documents how America's blockbuster pharmaceutical drugs, high-yield agricultural crops, and revolutionary technologies were all due to the federal government's sustained, multi-decadal investments in innovation.

The events of the past few weeks have made clear that the future of our economy and national security are in fact intimately intertwined; American greatness in both respects rests on our ability to act boldly on energy.

When we invest in research and innovation, the opportunities are boundless. American capitalism can take a seed of an idea and create revolutions in our economy and society, if we invest in innovation.

Is the U.S. missing the boat on clean energy? While our investment has actually declined in recent years, China is going "all-in."

If we're going to deal with our energy and climate challenges, then both left and right need to take a cold hard look at the facts, instead of attacking Bill Gates for injecting a needed dose of realism into the climate debate.

The U.S. has a successful track record of catching up in strategic industries. We can and must do the same today in clean energy, and in the aftermath of cap and trade, there's not a moment to waste.

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Now the X Prize Foundation is focusing on energy and they are looking far and wide for ideas. In fact, they have launched a $25,000 prize on YouTube to call for prize concepts.

Cogeneration -- also known as combined heat and power, distributed generation, or recycled energy -- is the simultaneous production of two or more for...