The solar firm was founded in 2006 with A round funding from Kleiner Perkins and claims its process could increase the efficiency of conventional amorphous silicon PV by up to 150 percent.
Fuels are generic. Chemicals are designer substances. Zeachem is opening and a plant and working on ways to get into a new market.
Algae for $16,000 a ton? If you sell it to the right customers in the food business, that is, says Ternion Bio Industries’ CEO.
A report by the American Institute of Architects shows a big boost in the number of cities with green building programs across the country.
BARD Algae says it can squeeze thousands of times more oil out of an acre of algae than others. Competitors and scientists are skeptical.
Forget geologic time scales and mass extinctions. The DOE is seeding companies that can employ sunlight to make gas and other fuels directly.
Organic Fuels Algae Technology says it can use electricity to break open algae cell walls to extract oil for cheap. Can it prove the technology works outside the lab?
A report from the National Research Council shows that the energy required to produce electricity and batteries makes electric cars and hybrids more harmful to human health than gasoline vehicles.
The trash-to-traffic company that’s working with GE opens its demo plant and touts the novel business model.
The new loan guarantee program will support as much as $8 billion in loans for power plants using more mature solar, wind and other technologies.
UPDATE—Qteros and ACT plan to build a demonstration plant for capturing wastewater solids and turning them to ethanol, then seek wastewater plants that want the fuel to sell or power on-site operations.
The biofuel startup began raising the round this summer and hopes to get roughly $60 million total to build its first commercial plant.
A technology for water purification and toner cartridges could cut the onerous cost of getting algae out of water.
With an investment from Chevron, LS9 joins the small club of biofuel startups getting support from big oil. It hopes to prove its case in two years.
Clean diesels are selling like hotcakes in the U.S. and the numbers should increase, say execs at Audi and Volkswagen
The material that dare not speak its name (except if you’re 11 years old) makes its mark in greentech.
The governor and others talked up his record, high-speed rail, and algae at a tour of algae specialist Solazyme.
The Minnesota-based startup turns cellulosic biomass into something called levulinic ketal, a brand-new molecule that can be made into a host of industrial chemicals.
The utility wants to capture carbon from a coal-fired plant and feed it to algae to make biofuel. It’s a less common form of carbon capture, but could offer the added benefits of a green fuel as an end product.
Sierra Energy says it can convert idled steel mill blast furnaces into trash-to-biogas reactors, saving on the cost of building a plant.
On the eve of the big auto show in Frankfurt, the VW Group showed off a new Bentley, a Lamborghini and an Audi. But the big deal was the all-electric Volks.