Hey, maybe we can drink our way out of this mess after all. ARPA-E, the Energy Department’s cutting-edge technology funding branch, has just released grants totaling $66 million for transformative automotive and energy projects, and among the goodies is a cutting-edge process to extract magnesium from seawater. The overall concept … [continued]
Being on a whirlwind work trip around Ukraine for about one week, I got way behind on my normal news routine and cleantech buffets. Apologies. To catch up, I’m posting 3 (yes, 3!) cleantech buffets this morning. Here’s the first one, on solar & wind energy news and commentary. Solar … [continued]
CleanTechnica was recently granted an exclusive interview with InventivEnergy CEO & Founder, John R. Keller, on what the company is up to. InventivEnergy is a full service energy consulting firm specializing in power project development and construction project management, O&M and asset management, markets, valuation and risk management, as well … [continued]
Five months ago, one of the country’s ten largest electric utilities told regulators in Minnesota that it needed three new natural gas power plants to handle peak energy demand. This week, the same company’s Colorado division announced plans to use more solar power because it is cost competitive with gas. … [continued]
We’ve been giving hydrogen fuel cells the sustainability stinkeye because of the huge amount of energy needed to manufacture hydrogen, which typically involves natural gas, which brings us around to the impacts of fracking including water contamination, fugitive greenhouse gas emissions and even earthquakes. However, a new fuel cell demonstration … [continued]
The Department of Energy has just come out with a new round of $45 million in funding to improve the performance of EV batteries, along with other projects to reduce vehicle weight, improve efficiency and increase EV battery range. We’re not surprised to see sticky-tape expert 3M among the list … [continued]
Coal’s dominant share of China’s power capacity is set to be slowly eroded over the next twenty years, thanks primarily to the growth of the country’s renewable sector, in particular large hydro, which is set to account for more than half of new power plants before 2030. And while China’s … [continued]
While lithium-ion batteries are current champs of the electric vehicle market, fuel cells are beginning to come on strong. If that trend continues it raises some intriguing future scenarios, namely, fuel cells could eventually squeeze out Li-ion batteries altogether, or both technologies could co-exist to some degree, engaging in a … [continued]
Originally published on Gas2 by Christopher DeMorro Even though the Frankfurt Auto Show doesn’t open its doors until mid-September, automakers are already rolling out the first official images and info of concepts that will make their debut. For GM the big news is the Monza Concept, shared by both Opel … [continued]
Seems it was a slow weekend. Here’s a cleantech breakfast platter of some top cleantech stories published over the weekend, as well as a few not-so-cleantech stories. Enjoy! (Links to our own archives are on each of the subheadings): Solar Cleaning Solar Panels Often Not Worth the Cost If you … [continued]
