Category Energy

The Sixth Revolution: The Coming of Cleantech

Beacon Power energy storing flywheel That’s what Merrill Lynch calls it in an investor’s advisory (PDF), prompting Alternative Energy Stocks to comment that our current times bears resemblance to the opening of Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities, “It was…

Shock absorber that generates energy

MIT undergrads have invented a shock absorber that not only smooths things better than conventional shocks, it also generates electricity and improves fuel mileage. In their testing so far, the students found that in a 6-shock heavy truck, each shock…

Enhanced geothermal systems

Enhanced Geothermal Systems have the potential to produce “effectively unlimited” renewable energy. It does this by drilling much deeper than conventional geothermal, harnessing the heat in the earth to create steam to power the turbines. As for the possibility of…

Stimulus bill greatly boosts cleantech

TriplePundit details the just-passed stimulus bill, which has $37.5 billion for cleantech and renewable energy, including $17 billion for high speed rail, as well as a multitude of tax credits. Perhaps what’s most exciting about this bill isn’t the spending…