25 February '10
2:09 PM EST
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Funding

Reblog: Clean Energy Bloom Boxes Still Have a Dirty Side

Amidst the über hype surrounding the release of Bloom Energy’s Bloom Box, we came across this insightful and sobering post by Mark Boslet, co-editor of TechPulse 360, a Silicon Valley news site that chronicles the innovation and companies defining the clean-tech industry.

Coca-Cola expected five Bloom boxes will help it cut the carbon footprint of an Odwalla plant by 35 percent.

In the gush of enthusiasm for Bloom Energy’s new energy box, one topic has received scant attention: its environmental impact.

The hype is that the new Bloom Energy Server is ready to save the world, to generate electricity without producing greenhouse gases. It is not quite that simple. Read More »

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23 February '10
8:12 AM EST
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Solar

BrightSource Gets $1.37 bln DOE Loan Guarantee For Ivanpah Project, Whoa!

BrightSource Energy was offered a $1.37 billion loan guarantee from the Department of Energy on Monday, the largest such loan awarded by the DOE –see official press release here. The Oakland, Calif.-based company will use this crucial government backing to secure financing to support construction of its 440-megawatt Ivanpah Solar Power Complex, located in a six square miles (15.53 square kilometers) area on the Nevada side of the Mojave Desert, owned by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Read More »

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22 February '10
3:45 PM EST
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Cleantech

Buzz Boom for Bloom Box Ahead of Wednesday Launch [VIDEO]

Bloom Energy, the Silicon Valley company, which has spent eight years developing a container-like  energy storage devise that could revolutionize how we get our electricity,  is generating quite a bit of buzz ahead of its official coming out party, set for Wednesday. Read More »

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4 February '10
2:53 PM EST
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Is Google a Tesla Stockholder?

Tesla Roadster S

Valleywag reports that buried in the Initial Public Offering documentation Tesla filed with the SEC about its stockholders was “a possible Google front” – a company called Amphitheatre LLC.

Amphitheatre LLC also invested in several other Google related ventures, including 23AndMe, the genetic testing firm co-founded by Sergei Brin’s wife. Read More »

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14 January '10
11:19 AM EST
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Policy

The Cornerstone Conversation: Andrew Revkin, Dot Earth blogger, Pace University Senior Fellow

Right-wing firebrand Rush Limbaugh thinks the planet would be better with former New York Times climate reporter Andrew Revkin dead and Climate Progress blogger Joe Romm wants him to get something (anything) right. Being the target of these two flamethrowers, in addition to writing Page One stories for The Times from the Copenhagen climate summit, running the Dot Earth blog and writing books would wear anyone down. On Dec. 21, Revkin packed it in and left The Times, where he had been a staff writer since 1995. Not, mind you, to run and hide, but to begin the next phase of his career as a senior fellow at Pace University’s new interdiscplinary program for applied environmental studies. We caught up with Revkin to talk about Copenhagen and the future of the climate for our Cornerstone Conservations series with leading executives and thinkers in clean tech and green energy.

GER: What was the Copenhagen climate summit like to cover?

Andrew Revkin: I’m sure everyone over there had a different perspective based on their experience.  I was seeing some really bad signs early on; it was kind of like watching a truck you know is going too fast miss the intersection. There was just no way you were going to get any substantive breakthroughs coming out of something like that. Read More »

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