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Solar Capacity Expansions are Back as Utilization for Tier-1 Companies Nears...
While the carnage of tier-2 and tier-3 solar manufacturers continues in the solar industry as a result of impending industry consolidation, tier-1 companies are planning expansions as their capacity...
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The Envia Lawsuits: A Promising Battery Start-up’s Trials and Tribulations
Envia Systems, a high profile lithium-ion battery start-up, has become embroiled in a bitter and revealing set of lawsuits. The Superior Court of California published court documents detailing a wide...
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Carbodeon’s Diamond Nanoparticle-Infused Polymer Holds Promise
What They Said Carbodeon recently announced a thermally conductive polymer with improved performance by using tiny particles of diamond as the thermal filler. It started with a polyamide 66 (PA66)...
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Solar to Become Competitive with Natural Gas by 2025
The advent of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), which has the potential to make abundant natural gas penetrate global markets, has left solar opponents and proponents wondering about the world’s...
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Hype Officially Over for Frack Water Treatment
Every new field goes through an early hype period, followed by disillusionment, then slower, more measured growth. With small-scale investors and large companies like Schlumberger weighing in to report...
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The BioAg Alliance: What This Week’s Monsanto/Novozymes Announcement Means...
Last week, Monsanto and Novozymes announced the formation of a new research and development (R&D) cooperation, aimed at rapid discovery and commercialization of biological products for agriculture....
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Technology is the Key to Unlock 1.7 Trillion BOE of Shale
Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have unlocked shale gas and tight oil resources previously written off as uneconomical, single-handedly altering North America’s energy landscape, away from...
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Re-coining MINT: Why Wall Street’s Stupid Acronyms Fail and Most Investments...
Millions of people are just digging out from the massive storm that hit over the weekend. No, not that climate-change-proving Arctic polar vortex snowstorm hitting the U.S., but by the hypestorm in the...
View ArticleGoogle’s Acquisition of Nest Shows How B2C and Advanced Automation Make for...
Yesterday Google announced a cash purchase of home automation start-up Nest Labs for $3.2 billion; Google Ventures has been a major investor in the company, whose last funding round totaled $80 million...
View ArticleLooking Beyond the Big Butanol Companies: University Lab Producing Isobutanol...
Much of the press in the butanol industry over the past few months was focused on the big news from the big names – think Butamax’s Highwater Ethanol retrofit plans (client registration required),...
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