Obama Says He'll Push for Clean Energy Bill
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Redefining Education in a Tree House
At some point or another every kid has dreamt of living in something like the Swiss Family Robinson s tree house; even fictional chil...

Alliance Formed to Commercialize Solar Reforming Technologies to Convert Waste CO2 into Synthetic Fuel
Sandia has been working on Sunshine to Petrol technologies for a number of years. Source: Sandia. Click to enlarge. An alliance ...

Is biomimicry a megacategory of cleantech?
I had a terrific interview last week with natural sciences expert Janine Benyus, who is the foremost authority on an emerging area of s...

Flow Rate Group Preliminary Best Estimate Puts Oil Flow from Deepwater BP Well Between 12,000 and 19,000 Barrels per Day; Obama Administration Extends Suspension of Offshore Drilling
Based on three separate methodologies (described below), the independent analysis of the Federal Flow Rate Technical Group analyzing th...

Risk vs. Reward
One thing that non-VCs typically don't have a good understanding of is how different venture investors view the risk versus reward trad...

Queen s U study says government support for solar manufacturing a no brainer
A Queen s University study in the journal Energy Policy has come out in favour of strong government support for solar manufacturing i...

Abengoa Solar Begins Commercial Operation of Second 50MW Parabolic Trough Plant
Abengoa Solar began commercial operation of Solnova 3, a new parabolic trough technology plant located at the Sol car Complex, Seville...

BrightSource Energy Lights Up An Additional $150M In VC Funding
Solar thermal continues to be a hot form of renewable energy as BrightSource Energy announced it has raised an additional $150 million ...