Wired profiles ten companies doing amazing, positive things, creating our new energy future. The innovations include plants that turn themselves into sugar, speeding the process to create biofuel; high altitude kites that produce electricity from the jet stream, superconductor electricity lines that carry more and waste less, and new ways to harness geothermal heat.
Posts Tagged ‘clean energy’
Energy efficiency equals job creation and home improvement
All over America, the news is spreading that long-term investment in our national infrastructure, is — amazingly — a good idea. I guess people start to wake up when bridges start to fail, schools fall apart, etc; the writing’s on the crumbling wall, so-to-speak. Rebuilding America is a trillion dollar plus project. Levees, roads, bridges. [...]
U.S. Army’s new research center puts fossil fuels on notice
The Army is researching hybrid and fuel cells for vehicles as well as better battery systems. They understand that energy security means creating your own energy. The Army is well aware of its potential for pulling the entire civilian market into a more sustainable future in which oil and other fossil fuels follow national defense [...]
Soros to invest $1 billion in clean energy
“I want to apply rather stringent criteria to the investments,” said Soros in an e-mailed message. “They should be profitable but should also actually make a contribution to solving the problem.” Welcome news indeed. More and more, the really smart money is investing long-term in cleantech. Because whoever funds a company that, say, makes algae [...]
Will America lose the clean energy race?
That’s what The Breakthrough Institute asks, saying that the US is dropping fast in funding for cleantech and in education for science. If America does not take immediate action to bridge its energy education gap — and if we fail to make substantially larger investments in our own clean-energy economy — we will effectively cede [...]
Nanotube technology transforms CO2 into fuel
Sunlight and titanium oxide nanotubes can transform carbon dioxide into methane. Methane can be utilized as energy source. It seems like double benefit. At one hand, we are reducing the quantity of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we would be less dependent on fossil fuels. This is one of many exciting new technologies being [...]
Energy Sec. Chu calls for $150 billion investment in clean energy
In testimony Thursday before Congress, Sec. Chu detailed the $150 billion budgeted for clean energy R&D and called for additional funds for deployment of the technology. This will create thousands of new jobs and probably entire new industries too. Many of the jobs will be in rural areas where the wind and solar is, and [...]
