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A look inside China's most notorious e-waste town

Guiyu is the town in China where your old electronics go to die. For years, it's been one of the main locations in the world where PCs, phone and other discarded products are shipped in to be pulled apart and recycled. The work is dirty and even hazardous, but lately Guiyu has been trying to clean up its act. Following is a slideshow to give you an idea what it's like.

A look inside China's most notorious e-waste town
Life at an iPhone factory in China

Foxconn is transforming the area around its factory in Zhengzhou, China. Here's a visual tour of the scene.

Life at an iPhone factory in China
A look around Greenpeace's unique Rainbow Warrior

Greenpeace brought it's new Rainbow Warrior ship to the San Francisco Bay this week and we got a chance to have a look around. The first campaign ship purpose built for Greenpeace, it was launched in 2011 and is unique in many ways. It has towering, 53-meter A-frame masts that allow it to carry more sail than other ships its size, and the helicopter pad at the stern is highly unusual for a sailing vessel. Here's a slide show that gives a look around the ship and provides more information

A look around Greenpeace's unique Rainbow Warrior

Tianjin explosion shuts down Chinese supercomputer

The Tianhe-1A was still running following the explosion
Software mogul Tom Siebel funds AI, drone research to tackle energy crisis

The CRM founder will spend $10 million over five years to improve the smart grid
Clinton plan to power U.S. homes with renewable energy in 10 years is doable

Hillary Clinton said that if elected president, she would push plans to get every household in America powered by renewable energy by 2027.
IBM's machine-learning crystal ball can foresee renewable energy availability
Renewable energy boom will mean vastly cheaper electricity

Tesla Motors' CTO said this week that battery storage will be key to solar adoption, and the resulting energy resources will be cheaper.
Facebook to use all renewable energy in its next data center

It will invest at least $US500 million in a 110-acre site in Texas

Could Tesla Energy's batteries blow up Elon Musk's company?

As it works to get in the black, Musk plans to invest $US10 billion to build Gigafactories to make the new batteries.
Tech's looming battle against rising energy costs

Green is not enough: How IT can (and must) lead the energy-savings charge across the entire enterprise