Steven Chu Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:19:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 EV Battery Prices Will Drop 87.5 Percent by 2020, Says U.S. Energy Secretary https://www.greenoptimistic.com/steven-chu-battery-price-detroit-20120117/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/steven-chu-battery-price-detroit-20120117/#respond Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:19:14 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=22026 The only roadblock in the way of electric car development nowadays are batteries. Be them lithium ion, nickel-metal hydride or any other type, batteries are the only thing keeping our polluted world apart from a much cleaner one, with cars that don’t break as often, without oil wars and so on. Good news: batteries will […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/steven-chu-battery-price-detroit-20120117/feed/ 0 22026 US Energy Secretary Announces Green Technology Partnership With China https://www.greenoptimistic.com/us-china-green-technology-partnership-20101118/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/us-china-green-technology-partnership-20101118/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:29:06 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11858 It was about time the US and China collaborated on anything but pollution... the reduction of pollution. The scientific partnership announcement has been made by the US Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Wednesday, launching one of the largest collaborations of this kind in the world.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/us-china-green-technology-partnership-20101118/feed/ 1 11858 Thermeleon: Roof Turning from Black to White as Temperature Changes https://www.greenoptimistic.com/thermeleon-roof-tile-20091012/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/thermeleon-roof-tile-20091012/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:44:30 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4742 While attending a competition for teams of MIT students, Making and Designing Materials Engineering Contest (MADMEC), a team of students and fresh-graduates have shown an invention that could turn the old roof tiles into chameleon-like tiles, turning from black to white and vice-versa as temperatures get low, respectively high.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/thermeleon-roof-tile-20091012/feed/ 2 4742 Incredible Synthetic Tree for CO2 Sequestration https://www.greenoptimistic.com/incredible-synthetic-tree-for-co2-sequestration-20090628/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/incredible-synthetic-tree-for-co2-sequestration-20090628/#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:55:19 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3843 Columbia University has announced the development of a structure that could capture carbon 1,000 times faster than a real tree. Klaus Lackner said, as the "tree" could be used for capturing carbon which has been already emitted into the air by car gasoline or airplain fuel.

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