aquion energy Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:02:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Saltwater Battery Wins MIT’s Prestigious Award https://www.greenoptimistic.com/saltwater-battery-mit-award-2015/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/saltwater-battery-mit-award-2015/#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:02:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56716 Energy storage system made of salt water and carbon, wins its creator the MIT’s prestigious award, Lemelson-MIT Prize, for 2015. Development of eco-friendly and efficient energy storage systems that can preserve the excess energy generated by renewables, is currently receiving much more attention than the actual energy generation technologies. It all makes sense, especially when advances […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/saltwater-battery-mit-award-2015/feed/ 0 56716 Aquion Energy’s Water-Based Batteries Backed by Bill Gates https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bill-gates-funds-aquion-energys-water-based-batteries-for-renewable-energy-storage-20130404/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bill-gates-funds-aquion-energys-water-based-batteries-for-renewable-energy-storage-20130404/#respond Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:06:53 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=35701 Aquion Energy  received an additional boost from major investors, including Bill Gates, to develop a cheap and environmentally-friendly water-based battery system. The new energy storage technology by Aquion Energy received a total of $35 million in investments. The energy storage units are suitable for small and large-scale energy projects, with test units of the so-called […]

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