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Greentech Media | 150 Solar Startups
Greentech Media | 150 Solar Startups. Useful taxonomy and list
Cool materials science stuff — solar, cloaking
- Solar nanoantenna energy collectors — highly effective sunlight receptors based on nanoscale antennas. Now onto nanoscale rectifiers…
- Another step towards cloaking devices
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Tags: Antennas, Cloaking, Cloaking Devices, Cool Science, Cool Stuff, Materials, Materials Science, Solar, Solar Energy, Sunlight
Fat Spaniel Launches Open Platform
Greentech Media | Fat Spaniel Launches Open Platform. Congrats guys. One nice example of the platform use here — another here — a bunch of these up on the fat spaniel site
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Tags: Energy, Fat Spaniel, Ignition, Launches, Open Platform, Solar, Spaniel
Mark Anderson on Solving America’s Energy Crisis — get to all electric with nuclear then solar/wind
Strategic News Service Blog » Blog Archives » Solving America’s Energy Crisis — a reasonable approach. I heartily agree with the idea of getting to all electric as soon as possible. We need an Apollo-like program — we need the leadership to propose it and to get everyone focused on it. The whole country focused on the July 20 1969 Apollo landing and rallied around it — we can do the same around the date of the last tanker docking at our shores from overseas.
As I’ve mentioned to some people — there will never be a solar embargo, there will never be a solar cartel, the sun isn’t controlled by governments inimical to our interests, “peak solar” is billions of years away, and solar production economics are going to follow a Moore’s-Law-like curve. What is not to like?
Solar cost competitive by 2015
Electricity Rates from Solar Cost Competitive by 2015 « Cooler Planet
Clean Edge, a research and publishing company focused on renewable technologies and the non-profit organization Co-op America released a report that states the cost of electricity derived from solar power will be on par with electricity derived from fossil fuels by 2015.Awesome, this is certainly my bet. The amount of investment that has poured into solar technologies is going to pay off somehow. I don’t know which approach will win, but one of them will.
Energy links — IT leaders, Tesla, Nuclear, Duke Energy, Construction
- HP working on solar PV, IBM putting a billion dollars into green datacenters, Intel spinning out a PV firm — nice to see the IT leaders getting behind alternate energy
- DOE funds electric vehicle projects — not sure why GM, GE, Ford need DOE money — give it to startups! More interesting is the note about Tesla’s deal with Daimler, very smart.
- Nuclear option gets more public support — thank goodness. The public is more rational than the politicians about energy strategy
- Duke Energy jumping into residential and commercial solar installs — the wave of the future?
- Green construction materials — I wonder about the 50 year life of these. I think I will let others be the beta testers.
Energy reads
- bcurtisBLOG » People are talking about water… — nice chart on where all our water goes. Only 13% for household use. A huge amount to thermoelectric power generation.
- Tom Evslin on energy policy. Great points — we need a country-wide BHAG with respect to energy — an Apollo-type program. And the government can lead through its own purchasing policies.
- Small scalable wind turbines — pretty cool looking.
- One man’s experience with solar thermal here in Seattle — the numbers look good.
- Ten fastest green cars on the planet — Karl’s car looks awesome
- REI trialing solar — I wonder if Fat Spaniel is part of the setup
- Solar shingles — love this idea, embedding green technology right into structural materials
XunLight, Silicon Thin Film Solar Maker, Raises $22M
XunLight, Silicon Thin Film Solar Maker, Raises $22M | EcoGeek — Nice to see an Ohio company leading the way
Interesting energy reads — Cogeneration At Home: Ceramic Fuel Cells And Bloom Energy; Solar as a Service; Vacuum-insulated windows; Solar roof tiles
- The Oil Drum | Cogeneration At Home: Ceramic Fuel Cells And Bloom Energy
- “Solar as a Service” — i like the phrasing
- Vacuum-insulated glass windows — makes sense, I wonder what the effective life of these are
- Solar Roof Tiles — nice notion. It will be interesting to see the degree to which we can embed solar and green technology into everyday materials.