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Solar Startup Solasta Seeks Next Round

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.

Biofuels

  • New Form of Solar Energy: Direct Solar Fuel

    Forget geologic time scales and mass extinctions. The DOE is seeding companies that can employ sunlight to make gas and other fuels directly.

    Biofuels

    Michael Kanellos October 28, 2009

  • Cracking Algae With Electricity

    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?

    Biofuels

    Jeff St. John October 23, 2009

  • Electric Cars: Bad for Your Health?

    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.

    Transportation

    Ucilia Wang October 19, 2009

  • Coskata Opens Demo Plant as Biofuels Creep Forward

    The trash-to-traffic company that’s working with GE opens its demo plant and touts the novel business model.

    Biofuels

    Michael Kanellos October 15, 2009

  • Feds Budget $750M for ‘Conventional’ Renewable Energy Generation

    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.

    Solar

    Ucilia Wang October 7, 2009

  • Qteros, Applied CleanTech Look to Sewage for Biofuel

    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.

    Biofuels

    Jeff St. John October 6, 2009

  • Amyris Tallies $41.75M for C Round So Far

    The biofuel startup began raising the round this summer and hopes to get roughly $60 million total to build its first commercial plant.

    Biofuels

    Ucilia Wang October 1, 2009

  • PARC’s Solution for Algae Fuel: Going Down the Drain

    A technology for water purification and toner cartridges could cut the onerous cost of getting algae out of water.

    Biofuels

    Michael Kanellos September 25, 2009

  • Chevron Invests in LS9; Microbe Diesel by 2011?

    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.

    Biofuels

    Michael Kanellos September 24, 2009

  • Diesel: The Next Big Thing in America?

    Clean diesels are selling like hotcakes in the U.S. and the numbers should increase, say execs at Audi and Volkswagen

    Transportation

    Michael Kanellos September 23, 2009

  • 11 Great Things to Do With Sewage

    The material that dare not speak its name (except if you’re 11 years old) makes its mark in greentech.

    Biofuels

    Michael Kanellos September 21, 2009

  • High-Speed Rail a Tourist Attraction and Algae Milk: My Day With Arnold

    The governor and others talked up his record, high-speed rail, and algae at a tour of algae specialist Solazyme.

    Biofuels

    Michael Kanellos September 18, 2009

  • Segetis: Making a Brand New Biochemical

    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.

    Biofuels

    Jeff St. John September 16, 2009

  • APS Gets $70.5M to Feed Captured Carbon to Algae

    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.

    Biofuels

    Jeff St. John September 16, 2009

  • Syngas From Steel Mills

    Sierra Energy says it can convert idled steel mill blast furnaces into trash-to-biogas reactors, saving on the cost of building a plant.

    Biofuels

    Jeff St. John September 16, 2009

  • Volkswagen Going Electric in 2013

    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.

    Transportation

    Michael Kanellos September 14, 2009

  • Auto Roundup: IPOs and Algae

    From batteries to algae, it’s been a big week in the automotive world news, so we’ve compiled a list of the hottest stories in one place.

    Batteries & Storage

    Frank Smith September 11, 2009

  • Nexterra’s Biomass-to-Biogas Tech Gets $7.7M Infusion

    Vancouver-based Nexterra has landed a new round of investment to prove its biomass-derived syngas can be fed directly into a General Electric engine in a British Columbia pilot project.

    Biofuels

    Jeff St. John August 31, 2009

  • Feds Dole Out $300M to Local Gov’ts for Alt Cars, Fuel Stations

    The new government funding will enable local governments and businesses to buy fleet vehicles powered by natural gas, biodiesel and electricity, and build fueling stations. Natural gas projects are big winners.

    Transportation

    Ucilia Wang August 26, 2009

  • Biofuel Maker Amyris Bags $24.7M

    The California company recently opened a demonstration plant in Brazil and hopes to sell biodiesel and chemicals from commercial plants in 2011.

    Biofuels

    Ucilia Wang August 21, 2009
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