Tag: cleantech
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National Lab Develops Material for Safe Hydrogen Storage
Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California have designed a new composite material that allows hydrogen to be stored safely and at high densities, while still making it easily accessible.
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Finance Friday: 11 March 2011
Here are recent angel and venture finance transactions for science- and engineering-based companies, as reported by Xconomy, Fierce Biotech, and Venture Capital Reporter. Biomedical/Life Sciences Kite Pharma, a start up biotech in Los Angeles, California developing new cancer vaccine therapies, took in $15 million in Series A venture funding, from TPG Capital and other investors.…
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U.S. Agencies to Fund Green Technology Start Up Challenge
The U.S. Commerce Department, with the Departments of Agriculture and Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and National Science Foundation, opened their $12 million i6 Green Challenge for business incubators that help green technology entrepreneurs get started. This year’s competition is the second round for the i6 Green Challenge that began last year. Commerce’s Economic Development Administration…
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Nanotubes Reduce Energy Drain in Digital Memory
University of Illinois engineers have developed a form of ultra-low-power digital memory that is faster and uses 100 times less energy than similar available memory. The student-faculty team at the school’s Champaign campus published its findings online in this week’s Science Express (paid subscription required). Flash memory in mobile devices today stores bits — 0/1…
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Laser Technology Can Cut Solar Cell Costs, Raise Efficiency
Researchers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana are developing a manufacturing technology based on fast, pulsing lasers that aims to make solar cells more affordable and efficient. The technology creates small microchannels needed to connect solar panels into an array that generates usable amounts of power. Yung Shin, engineering professor and director of Purdue’s…
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Process Turns Algae into Renewable Fuel, Cleans Wastewater
Chemical engineers at University of Arkansas in Fayetteville have developed a method for converting common algae into butanol, a renewable fuel that can be used in today’s internal-combustible engines. The technology has the added benefit helping to clean and oxygenate U.S. waterways by removing excess nitrogen and phosphorous from fertilizer in agricultural runoff. The team…
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EUREKA Network to Fund €33 Million in New European R&D
EUREKA, a network of research officials from 40 countries in Europe and Israel, approved a series of new R&D projects in clean technology and related fields. Meeting in Eilat, Israel, the €33 million ($45.7 million) approved by EUREKA will fund 25 projects in renewable energy, agrofood technology, biotechnology, physical sciences, IT and electronics, and industrial…
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Finance Friday: 25 February 2011
Here are recent angel and venture finance transactions for science- and engineering-based companies, as reported by Xconomy. Biomedical/Life Sciences CardioFocus in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Attrial fibrilliation devices. $13.6 million in equity financing. CalciMedica in San Diego, California. Biotech with experimental psoriasis candidate. $6 million in venture financing. Acetylon Pharmaceuticals, in Boston, Massacusetts. Drugs to treat cancer…
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Michigan Start Up Company Licenses Biodiesel Technology
NextCAT Inc. in Detroit, Michigan says it has licensed biofuel catalyst technology developed at the National Biofuels Energy Lab at Wayne State University, also in Detroit. The company says the technology can help restart the biodiesel industry that has been mostly idle in the United States since 2008, when rising feedstock prices made the production…
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Consortium to Study Ocean Potential for Carbon Storage
The new ISIS (In-Situ Iron Studies) Consortium announced today its plans to study the role of iron in regulating the ocean’s capacity to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide. The group of scientists from 12 institutions worldwide aims to better understand the impact of iron on marine ecosystems and to quantify its potential for CO2 removal. The…