Having just finished Mariana Mazzucato’s 2024 book The Entrepreneurial State, I was struck by how powerfully it illuminated the reality behind state-led innovation, starkly contrasting with the Trump administration’s current approach of scaling back government investment and hoping that corporate R&D can independently fill the gap. Mazzucato thoroughly dismantles the … [continued]
New EV charging stations are sprouting up all over the US, even as the White House disables federally supported stations and sends more taxpayer dollars down the drain.
The US startup UbiQD aims to expand its quantum dot activity with perovskite solar technology that boosts silicon solar panel efficiency by 16%.
The industrial electrification revolution in the US is beginning to gather steam, and the US heat pump manufacturer AtmosZero is here for it.
Trump or no Trump, the high performing, non-flammable solid state EV battery of the future is heading for gigascale production in the UK and elsewhere around the world.
ExxonMobil dropped the algae biofuel ball last year but many other firms are racing to fill the gap, with an eye on algae-based plastics, fertilizers, and other products, too.
The California startup QuantumScape is one key step closer to commercial-scale production of its new solid state EV battery, featuring the only known self-assembling anode fabrication process in the auto industry.
Wave energy is a vast new source of renewable energy that has defied harnessing so far, but researchers and industry stakeholders are finally beginning to unlock its secrets.
The Swiss startup Sun-Ways is piloting an ingenious new system for hiding large arrays of solar panels in plain sight, in between the ties of railroad tracks.
The coal producing state of West Virginia is hosting a new factory that will send coal-killing iron-air energy storage all around the US.
