Month November 2011

We need a battery miracle

We Need a Battery Miracle from bgC3 on Vimeo. Bill [Gates] believes that creating large-scale batteries to store energy is a critical problem to solve if solar and wind energy are to become mainstream. In this video, Bill and MIT…

Beacon Power, DOE loan recipient files for bankruptcy

Beacon Power, who makes flywheels for grid storage and load balance, received $43 million in loan guarantees from the government and just filed for bankruptcy. I’ve followed Beacon for a long time. This loan was comparatively small and doesn’t seem…