Contributing editor David Smith is a writer and marketing consultant focusing on clean technology. He has held creative and marketing executive positions in technology companies and marketing agencies, and has a background in journalism and electrical engineering. He has consulted with emerging start-ups and Fortune 500 companies on market positioning, branding and communications strategies. An EV enthusiast, he has spoken on B2B marketing and social media at a variety of industry events.
Concept: Run satellite data through proprietary models to pinpoint needs for nitrogen fertilizers. Swedish firm Vultus is introducing a service for farmers to help them [...]
For carbon-free transportation, battery EVs are racing ahead while hydrogen-fueled vehicles are stuck in first gear. One key reason: most commercial hydrogen is produced from [...]
Concept: The oil & gas industry isn’t going away any time soon, so let’s consider it a global opportunity for clean tech innovation. To secure a sustainable future, [...]
The concept: plug a modular battery system into a light car, then network it all to give urban fleets non-stop range and opportunity. Not all EV start-ups start out building [...]
The Concept: combine the peak power profile of solar and wind energy to increase net system capacity up to 4%. You got chocolate in my peanut butter! Two great ways to [...]
No one knows the most efficient way to capture energy from the constant motion of the ocean. But a recent U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) competition has surfaced some likely [...]
“We are working on methods to surpass the theoretical limits of silicon solar cells,” says Dr. Frank Dimroth, department head at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy [...]
It sounds too good to be true: capture carbon dioxide from the air and convert it into fuel. Yet researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National [...]
New research points the way towards perovskite solar modules that are highly efficient to manufacture, and approaching the efficiency of crystalline silicon photovoltaics. [...]
Siemens has an answer to the problem of excess wind energy: bury it. The Future Energy Solution (FES) research project converts excess wind energy to heat in rock fill, [...]