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Take it with a grain of salt

SolarReserve’s 24/7 solar power plant 98
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago A Santa Monica startup called SolarReserve has licensed the solar power tower technology, turning the Silicon Valley model on its head: Take a proven yet obscure technology developed years ago by an old-line tech company and marry it the entrepreneurial culture of a startup.
Rooting for the underdog

For Khosla, clean tech is all about scale 0
Posted 2 months ago Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla believes "clean tech" is all about greening "old tech."
Whip it? Go for it ... move ahead ...

Wheego joins the ranks of electric car startups 4
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
A decade after General Motors killed the electric car, big automakers and startups are revving up to put battery-powered vehicles on the road over the next couple of years. One of the latest entrants is Wheego, an Atlanta company that is about to launch the Whip.
COOL(ING) TECHNOLOGY

Geoengineering schemes shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand, scientists say 9
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Sci-fi proposals to cool the planet are laden with risk but may be Earth's only hope if politicians fail to tackle global warming, scientists said on Tuesday in their biggest evaluation to date of "geoengineering" concepts.
Please lord, don't let it be another Segway

EEStor CEO says game-changing energy storage device coming by 2010 30
Posted 4 months ago
If the Texas company EEStor is running a scam, it's a frakking brilliant one. For years the otherwise tight-lipped outfit has been promising a capacitor that can quickly charge, quickly discharge, and hold enormous amounts of energy. Now there's a leaked interview with EEStor CEO Dick Weir in which he claims that he'll have a pre-production prototype done by the end of the year.
From this VantagePoint

Silicon Valley VC sees bright future for green tech—and a need to engage policy makers 6
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
VantagePoint Venture Partners is making big bets on green tech by funding nearly two dozen startups involved in everything from LED lighting to algae biofuels to water to the smart grid. CEO Alan Salzman talks about what his firm sees ahead.