EVs and Child Labor: Time for a More Ethical Battery
[Image source: CBS News] As green energy becomes an increasingly hot topic in our modern world, a few vital questions have emerged that deserve our attention: What are the [...]
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Squeezing Solar: Tracker Innovation Boosts Market
The per watt decline in cost of solar cells has led to unprecedented growth in solar energy generation. While the industry is nowhere near to overtaking fossil fuel energy, [...]
Revised Recipe for Redox Doubles Effectiveness
Here at Cleantech Concepts we’re a proponent of educating the industry about the virtues of redox flow batteries as a grid-scale storage solution. We are seeing [...]
Playing Ball Creates High-Capacity True Lithium Battery
Lithium ion batteries have become the go-to energy storage medium for everything from EVs to renewable energy reservoirs at the substation level. While flow batteries and [...]
Hybrid Tugs To Push Energy Savings into Brazil Harbors
When it comes to the environmental costs of transporting manufactured and agricultural goods we typically think of the fuel expended by large freighters. One associated [...]
First 100% Solar Train Shines in Australia
Chalk this one up to the accelerated growth of efficient solar technology. In Australia, a railroad company has restored a derelict heritage train to run completely on [...]
Outsmarting Smartphone Batteries
What if you never had to charge your smartphone, which is probably the most used piece of equipment you have? No battery concerns, no cables, no searching for outlets at the [...]
Cleantech Forum Diary Day One: A Fighting Stance
Enthusiastic Business Community Focuses on Economic Opportunity SAN FRANCISCO, January 24, 2017 — It’s not often that you walk into a business conference where [...]
Amorphous Silicon Cracks Open Advances for Lithium Ion Batteries
Given the dominance of lithium-ion chemistry in the storage market, research efforts to increase capacity, performance and safety are intensifying. Now a team at Shangdong [...]
The Grid: A Biography of America’s Electricity Infrastructure (book review)
Some think the biggest obstacle to renewable energy is Big Oil. Others blame conservative climate deniers. The real culprit may be an old, old friend, the electrical [...]
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