The blockchain and AI focused energy solutions firm Energi Mine managed to raise $4 million in new funding — the remaining portion of its $15 million Initial Coin Offering (ICO) target — in just 81 minutes following the opening of the ICO.
President Trump’s solar tariff threw a monkey wrench into the US solar industry, but Elon Musk of Tesla has engineered a shield — or two, or three — against any permanent damage to the company’s Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo.
Revolution is the name of the game these days — or, rEVolution, as some of us like to put it. Here at CleanTechnica, our objective is to cover the EV revolution, solar revolution, wind revolution, energy storage revolution, and energy efficiency revolution. The reasoning is varied — cleaner air, new economic opportunities, cool tech, etc. — but one core reason is that we’re racing to stop global warming, and we’re not in the lead.
One industry which is actively working with Blockchain technology is the energy sector, a traditionally “un-innovative” sector with well established near-monopolies. In this sector, Blockchain is already enabling peer-to-peer energy transactions between neighbors. Imagine that your solar panels are going to deliver energy to the grid and/or charge your batteries at the most convenient time. And it all lies in the palm of your hand.
