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• Battery Startup ActaCell Lassos Cool $1M from Texas

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 161
  Lithium-ion battery startup ActaCell has just added the state of Texas to its corral of high-profile backers. The state is providing a “pre-seed award” of $250,000 to ActaCell, according to a release from the Austin-based company this morning, and putting another $750,000 on “reserve” for the startup, which ...
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• Battery Startup ActaCell Lassos Cool $1M from Texas

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 663
  Updated with additional info from ActaCell: Lithium-ion battery startup ActaCell has just added the state of Texas to its corral of high-profile backers. The state is providing a “pre-seed award” of $250,000 to ActaCell, according to a release from the Austin-based company this morning, and putting another ...
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• All-American Zero-Emission Electric Bus Debuts On Capitol Hill (PollutionOnline)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  Proterra LLC, a Colorado-based manufacturer of zero-emission heavy-duty vehicle systems and transit buses, and Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Altairnano), a leading provider of energy storage systems for clean, efficient power and energy management, today introduced to Washington DC policymakers the only ...
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• $4 Million Goes to MIT from French Oil Company for Solar Energy Battery Project

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 624
  Total, a French oil company, recently agreed to give the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) $4 million for a 5-year research project to develop stationary batteries that can more efficiently store solar energy. More efficient energy storage has been a difficult issue for scientists to crack. It is a major ...
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• Metal-Air Ionic Liquid Battery: 11 Times The Capacity of Li-Ion

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 136
  A spinoff company from Arizona State University is planning to develop a metal-air battery which unlike lithium-ion batteries has an energy density 11 times greater, for less than one-third the cost. Last week, the US Department of Energy awarded a $5.13-million research grant to Scottsdale, AZ-based Fluidic Energy. ...
  6 days ago

• The wonders of ionic liquids, and how they can dramatically raise the bar on energy storage

  
  Clean Break — Authority: 503
  I have to be honest, up until last week I’d heard a lot about the potential of metal-air batteries — i.e. zinc-air, lithium-air, etc… — but really didn’t know much about the batteries, how they were made, why they are be potentially better, and what challenges need to be overcome for them to unseat the ...
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• Altair Nanotechnologies Reports Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results (Marketwire)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  RENO, NV–(Marketwire - November 5, 2009) - Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Altairnano) ( NASDAQ : ALTI ), a provider of energy storage systems for clean, efficient power and energy management, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. For the quarter ended September 30, 2009, ...
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• Cap and Trade: A Tangled Web… A Project-Based Alternative – Part 4

  
  Green Thoughts — Authority: 106
  In the first two parts ( part 1 and part 2 ) of this post, I discussed cap and trade as well-intentioned but a fundamental misapplication of the permit trading policy framework.  I also went on to identify 11 basic elements of any climate policy regardless of instrument.  In the third part , I describe a ...
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• New solar storage solution could be the key to home-brewed electricity

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 710
  Reports of new developments in the area of solar power are an almost daily event here at Gizmag. The main focus of research seems to be on improving the efficiency of solar cells , but others are working at developing an inexpensive method of locally storing the energy generated by solar systems. Because society ...
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• Torotrak’s Flywheel System Could Be Cheaper Alternative to Hybrid Car Batteries

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 136
  Flywheels are known to be very good mechanical energy storage devices. They have a certain weight and, by spinning, they capture the energy in their momentum. That energy can be released by electromagnetic means and transformed into electricity.
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• Altair Nanotechnologies to Present at Thomas Weisel Partners Alternative Energy and Natural Resources Conference (Marketwire)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  RENO, NV–(Marketwire - November 3, 2009) - Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. ( NASDAQ : ALTI ), a leading provider of energy storage systems for clean, efficient power and energy management, today announced its participation at the Thomas Weisel Partners Alternative Energy and Natural Resources Conference held in New ...
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• The 24/7 solar power plant

  
  Green Wombat — Authority: 418
  Image: SolarReserve Ok, I’m exaggerating a bit in the headline above but we’re getting closer to solar farms that will provide baseload power, operating at night and under cloudy conditions. As I write on Tuesday in The New York Times: The holy grail of renewable energy is a solar power plant that continues ...
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• Siemens Hybrid Energy Storage System

  
  Power Industry News — Authority: 146
  T ram, streetcar and light rail systems can provide very efficient, environmentally friendly urban mass transit.However, they do require a significant investment for tracks and overhead catenary lines to deliver electricity to moving vehicles. Catenaries can be rather unsightly, especially in congested downtown and ...
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• North Bay Resources Goes Green With Vanadium Acquisition

  
  Mining Top News — Authority: 433
  North Bay Resources Inc. announce that it has acquired the Pine River Vanadium deposit in northeastern British Columbia. Vanadium is a strategic metal that is irreplaceable in a number of applications, including alternative energy storage, where its environmentally friendly attributes have led many to now refer to it ...
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• Future May Involve Getting Paid to Charge Your Plug-in Vehicle

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 593
  They say that nothing is free, but I may have come across the exception. In West Texas and Illinois, electric customers are being paid to use electricity. With the growth of wind energy in areas like Texas, Iowa and Minnesota, electric companies are occasionally producing more energy—especially during off-peak ...
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• Future May Involve Getting Paid to Charge Your Plug-in Vehicle

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 161
  They say that nothing is free, but I may have come across the exception. In West Texas and Illinois, electric customers are being paid to use electricity. With the growth of wind energy in areas like Texas, Iowa and Minnesota, electric companies are occasionally producing more energy—especially during off-peak ...
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• Solar Thermal Power

  
  Go Solar Power For Homes — Authority: 438
  In this video, John O’Donnell, energy and climate entrepreneur, discusses solar thermal power . To quote Greenpeace, s olar thermal power is empowering the masses and tranforming them from “passive consumers” to “active producers of power”, selling excess power into the National grid. With little ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pavegen taps pedestrians for power in East London (video)

  
  Technology Blog — Authority: 169
  When we were kids, we assumed that in the future everything would be powered by tiny nuclear fusion reactors: automobiles, toothbrushes, time machines (apparently we read a lot of sci-fi from the 1950s). The truth, as usual, is more mundane than all that: some of the more promising advances we’ve seen in green ...
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• How An ARPA-E Grant Can Transform a Startup

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 663
  Envia Systems , a battery materials startup based in Hayward, Calif., has just entered an elite group: the 1 percent of applicants awarded a first-round grant under the Department of Energy’s high-risk energy tech fund, ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy). Given that Envia, founded in 2007, had ...
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• Investorideas.com Renewable Energy Stocks Directory of 900 Green Stocks Now Available in PDF

  
  Renewable Energy Stocks- Insight Into Global Green Investing Trends and Opportunities — Authority: 118
  Investorideas.com Renewable Energy Stocks Directory of 900 Green Stocks Now Available in PDF - How to Find your Next Green Stock Pick POINT ROBERTS, WA and DELTA, BC –October 29, 2009 - www.RenewableEnergyStocks.com , a leading global investor and industry portal for the renewable energy sector within ...
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