US researchers have found a way to achieve a cost competitive level of efficiency in solar paint. Could this mean DIY solar for the masses?
A $500m green bond offer by Korea’s Export-Import Bank – a world first – employs the big guns of capitalism to finance cleantech projects.
The third annual Australian Clean Technology Competition was launched in Sydney on Tuesday night, with more than 150 applicants expected.
IEA report charts path for doubling of global hydroelectricity output, urging developing economies to tap significant renewables growth potential.
A new US study shows that twice the effort is going to developing supply technologies than to improving the efficiency of end-use technologies.
The simplest energy storage option for renewable electricity is batteries, but our simplest option is also among the least energy dense material we have.
A Finnish-made robotic recycling system that works like the human brain is now set to be run on solar power.
US solar outfit Semprius says its PV technology is so efficient it could make electricity cheaper than coal and gas within a few years.
Australia ranks 16th on global innovation index; CFC sales, revenue jump on EU success; Angel investors heart cleantech; & Vic wind policy claims first victim.
Australia is looking for ways to dig up and burn coal without blowing its emissions budget. How real is the promise of clean coal technology?
Electric trucks arrive in LA; “bio-coals” for green locomotives; and a new cheap battery is unveiled in US.
The manager of Australia’s largest renewable energy venture capital fund is poised to announce its first investments, hoping to break the massive hourglass effect between Australia’s R&D and commercialisation. But will the biggest VC opportunities lie in generation technologies, or those that reduce costs for the consumer market?
Techno-optimism is a form of denial. That things aren’t that serious and that politically difficult change that will confront powerful vested economic interests can be avoided. Such a view is reassuring, it feels good and it fits nicely with our genetic tendency to optimism. Unfortunately, it’s also wrong.
With funding to the US ‘moonshot’ cleantech agency drying up, this year’s ARPA-E Summit was about making the case for spending on innovation.
The cleantech rivalry between the US and China will have important implications for energy security, climate change, and trade in the global economy.
