Several of America’s largest corporations have banded together to make it easier for businesses to access clean, renewable energy. The goal is to have tens of thousands of partners in 5 years.
Many homeowners now use rooftop solar panels to generate their own electricity, and a geothermal heating and cooling system works well in tandem with solar panels because the geothermal heat pump helps regulate your home’s temperature using the electricity provided by your solar panels.
Smart cities aren’t IoT sensors for everything on every corner all of the time. They aren’t just dumb CCTV cameras everywhere providing post facto blame allocation for crimes and accidents. Sensors are just the start.
Have you heard of home geothermal heating and cooling? It’s an energy system that can save homeowners serious money on utility bills.
Thankfully, you don’t have to live anywhere near an active volcano to have an effective, money-saving home geothermal system installed.
Dandelion Energy offers homeowners a clean and cost effective geothermal heating and cooling solution – their solutions are so innovative and interesting that our writer Kyle Field calls Dandelion “The Tesla Of Residential Thermal Management.” Dandelion Energy made big news this week and announced on 12 February the close of their $16MM Series A, bringing the company’s total funding to $23MM.
Waymo has officially launched its new Waymo One commercial on-demand ride hailing app in Phoenix, Arizona today, marking the latest step toward a fully-autonomous Waymo ride hailing service for the masses.
The world is changing fast, but many worry it is not fast enough, so let’s review the biggest cleantech news from China in August. As always, there’s much news out of China. In order to aggregate and summarize the highlights, this edition of our China × Cleantech feature separates the stories by a handful of broad topics. This report is also published over on the “Future Trends” section of our website.
Waymo has opened an office in Shanghai as it prepares to crack the Chinese market for autonomous ride-hailing services.
China is a market leader in terms of electric cars, but that’s just one of the emerging trends in the automotive world. Autonomous technology is quickly transitioning from science fiction into state-of-the-art science and Pony.ai is raising funds to push it closer to reality.
Some people seem to thrive on turbulent times. Others prefer tranquility. Elon Musk is definitely in the first group. He seems to be happiest when things around him are in chaos — or at least, that’s where he shines. If so, he must be ecstatic and glowing brightly at the moment. After tweeting last week that he might take Tesla private, the news media has been awash with guesses, wild ass guesses, and far-fetched speculation about who might be interested in walking Tesla and Elon down the aisle in a financial marriage that could have international implications.
