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Energy investors and entrepreneurs often refer to the period between technologies being developed in the lab and making their way to the marketplace as a “valley of death” due to the multitude of factors that can prevent those advancements from reaching the consumer. Today, just miles from the real Death Valley in Nevada, [...]
If you want to get a glimpse of the future, talk to Riki Escamilla. [...]
Earlier this month Skyline Solar , a solar panel builder in Silicon Valley, won the first patent to emerge from an Obama Administration program designed to put green technology on the fast track. Shortening the time it takes to win approval helps get promising green technologies into the marketplace faster. Skyline filed its patent application in April 2008 and asked to move it into the fast lane in December. [...]
Get energy from concentrate. It sounds like an old orange juice commercial, but it’s a concentrated solar power is a promising method to produce electricity. [...]
This is my view on the most important green achievements that took place during 2009. [...]
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