Blue Dye-and-Water-Battery Wins $4 Million ARPA-E Grant
Stanford PhD student and entrepreneur Colin Wessels turned his thesis into a Palo Alto, California startup called Alveo Energy. Alevo’s goal is to develop...
Installation Prices for Solar Power Devices Dropped 14% in 2011
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has made public a study regarding the dropping of prices in the case of solar power installations. In 2011...
Mercedes-Benz’s Ener-G-Force Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cells
The 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show brought some great new concepts this year. One of them is the Mercedes-Benz Ener-G-Force. Big and bully, like...
Green Roofs May Boost Solar Cell Efficiency
Apart from providing improved insulation to buildings, lowering power consumption (by as much as 6%), providing habitat for some animals, filtering out air pollutants,...
Only 2% of US Geothermal Energy Needed to Supply 2500x Power Demand
Unlike solar and wind powers, geothermal power is cost-effective and a reliable source, 24/7 whole year round at a consistent and predictable rate. What’s...
Germany’s Alternative Energy Efforts Have a Long Way to Go
The Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), an advocacy organization for alternative energy, conducted a comprehensive study to determine how German households and businesses bankrolled energy...
Photobioreactor Will Provide Cheap and Efficient Energy Storage
Algae-based biofuel research was granted $910,000 to develop a bioreactor that will deliver light and collect fuel. The winning team from Cornell University consists...
GE’s Fabric Wind Turbines Get ARPA-E Attention and Funding
66 projects were included among the ARPA-E grants, and GE's newly designed wind turbine blades that use a special coating fabric are one of...
Hydrogen Cars to Overtake Battery EVs
In the meantime that battery EV’s are less prioritized by automakers, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles may get ahead from them as the next big...
US Department of Energy Plans for the Future with Biofuel Projects
The Department of Energy has awarded $6.1 million to four biofuel-related energy technology projects, not least of which include engineered bioenergy crops and a...
