I wanted to write a follow-on to yesterday’s post on Renewable Energy in the Mainstream. From a business perspective, will there be people who become fantastically wealthy from the migration to renewables — and from sustainability more generally? You bet. …
“…Because energy has become a focus for innovation, things will start to move faster…The most important thing we did is make energy an interesting area for Ph.D. students over the last five years,” said Vinod Khosla at the inaugural ARPA-E …
As noted yesterday, the annual report of the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI), published quarterly, confirms that 2009 was a record year for green tech. Automobile companies dominated the top clean energy patent holders; big auto holds five of …
Green patents have been tracked since 2002 by the Cleantech Group of Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti. The 2009 annual report of the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI), published quarterly, confirms that it was a record year for green …
Green Energy Technology Patents Reach Record Highs in 2009 – By Guest Blogger Kathy Read More »
“China missed the first industrial revolution, missed the computer revolution, and the biology revolution – they want to be a leader in the green revolution,” said Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy. (Scientific American, “Is ARPA-E Enough to Keep the U.S. …
Powerhouse China and The Renewable Energy Race — By Guest Blogger Kathy Read More »
Whether it is head scratching politicians in Copenhagen or industry analysts predicting that peak oil has already happened in one of the past decades, the pointers aim towards a fundamental shift – the process of doing away with carbon-based fuels …
Shale Natural Gas vs. Renewable Energy — Guest Blogger Anil Read More »
To continue the discussion on biofuels, there have been a number of oil companies who invested in algae fuel. The major ones are: Exxon The big oil firm was looking for projects with high returns to exploit its industry knowledge …
Making bio-fuel from Algae – by Guest Blogger Anil – Continued Read More »
I wrote not too long ago about the huge, long-term role that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), as part of the Department of Energy, plays in supporting the development of clean energy technologies. Their work with solar energy leader …
Hybrid of Public/Private Financing for Renewables Read More »
I was on a conference call this morning with people in Los Angeles, New York, Dublin, London, and Istanbul, trying to raise money for a large run-of-river hydrokinetics project in Turkey. I’d have to go back a long way to …
