Satellite company to privatize high-accuracy weather data
GPS satellite company GeoOptics wants to revolutionize how private satellite data is gathered. It’s developing a low-orbit satellite system that collects atmospheric information by recording how radio signals bend as they travel through the atmosphere to a receiver. It’s a technique known as radio occultation (RO), which was pioneered… Continue Reading
“Green brick” turns waste into money
Freight Pipeline Company, a company in Columbia, Missouri, is manufacturer of the “green bricks” that were named one of 2007’s best inventions by both Time Magazine and Popular Science, says it’s seeking $1 million in venture funding. To date the company’s been funded primary by government… Continue Reading
Clean storage company Deeya gets $15M
Deeya Energy, a developer of energy storage devices using environmentally friendly materials, has secured a second-round investment of $15 million, continuing the trend we’ve seen lately in energy storage device investments (see our coverage of A123 Systems, Lilliputian Systems, M2E Power, and Boston Power Inc here,… Continue Reading
Australian company develops clean water technology
Australian company Ioteq has revealed a new technology that it says will sanitize water with one of the most environmentally responsible systems around.
The technology, called Isan, and revealed at last week’s AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Monterey, Calif., uses iodine instead of chlorine to clean water…. Continue Reading
Bad blood at Tesla
There seems to be a bit of tension lingering after the appointment of Ze’ev Drori (pictured left, bottom) as the new CEO of Tesla Motors, the high profile Silicon valley electric car company.
Tesla released a statement last Friday at 6pm, apparently in an effort to… Continue Reading
Electric car company Tesla appoints new CEO
Tesla Motors, the high-profile Silicon Valley electric car company, announced it has appointed Ze’ev Drori, an experienced entrepreneur and car enthusiast, as its new chief executive officer.
This completes an arduous search process that spanned several months.
Drori (pictured left) replaces interim CEO Michael Marks, who took… Continue Reading
No surprise: Record breaking investments in clean-tech, with solar leading
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It’s no surprise this year is seeing record-breaking investment levels for the booming clean technology sector.
Venture capitalists invested $2.6 billion in companies that help the environment in some way during the first three quarters of 2007. That’s 48 percent more than the comparable period last… Continue Reading
Google launches major alternative energy initiative
(We’re on the conference call; live updating below)
Google today has launched a renewable energy initiative, pledging it will invest hundreds of million in projects to produce electricity from renewable energy sources.
Most significantly, Google said it wants to produce electricity more cheaply than that produced from… Continue Reading
CARMA, where anyone can see the sources of greenhouse gases
A non-profit think tank based in Washington D.C., has released a service that estimates carbon emissions of power plants and power companies throughout the world.
The service, called Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA), is run by the Center for Global Development, and aims to provide a… Continue Reading