The U.S. is a world-class leader in research, development, and innovation. Fixing the problems that unnecessarily inhibit the commercialization process will make it even stronger.
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Google wants to help other companies eliminate plastic from their packaging
"The new packaging is predominantly paper- and fiber-based, so it can be recycled easily. It required Google engineers, designers and suppliers to rethink lamination and coatings, box assembly, enclosures and labels, among other factors."
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The World’s First Solar-Powered Truck is Being Tested in Sweden
In a hard-to-decarbonize sector like transportation, solutions like Scania’s innovative solar-powered trailers are essential to reducing the cost of greenhouse gas reductions and spurring more private sector buy-in in clean, next-gen technologies.
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Three ARPA-E Startups that are Accelerating Energy Innovation
ARPA-E startups are advancing groundbreaking technologies to cost-effectively scale clean energy, meete future energy demands, and reduce global emissions.
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How PG&E Is Reducing Wildfire Risks Using Satellite Imagery
"'Parsing through these different sources of variability is one of the real value-adds of artificial intelligence,' Anderson said. 'We’ve been working on developing finer and finer metrics of forest structure and forest health to be able to quantify some of those patterns, and then provide those metrics of forest health to PG&E’s team to help them better characterize these patterns and help them identify where these potential failure modes may occur.'"
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Now Form Energy is using its battery tech to clean up iron and steel
"Form’s core product is a grid battery that uses powdered iron for the anode and runs the reduction and oxidation reactions back and forth to charge and discharge. The saying goes that if you wield a hammer, everything looks like a nail; Form’s engineers store energy by reducing iron, so they saw green iron production as another opportunity to apply their energy storage technique."
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Scientists develop proof-of-concept device that uses air pollution to produce electricity
"Or, dreaming even bigger, it could be integrated into an industrial carbon capture plant, which would help cool the plant and also remove harmful pollutants from the air that contribute to human health concerns such as asthma, per the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America."
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Tidal Vision, a startup turning crab shells into a green industrial chemical, is raising fresh cash
"The material is something of a wonder ingredient and can be used in water purification, to preserve produce, to promote plant growth, as a flame retardant in fabrics, and in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. It offers a safe alternative to toxic chemicals, metals, petroleum products and pesticides used in industry."
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Is the Future of Energy Storage Underground?
As energy demand increases and regulators warn about grid reliability, underground storage may have an important role to play in shoring up the grid and keeping energy affordable.
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Solar power poised for even greater breakthroughs
"Starting over a decade ago, the institute set up hundreds of sunlight sensors across the city state and began continuously measuring irradiance, the amount of sunlight that makes it to Earth as clouds come and go. Those measurements now constitute a massive data record that researchers, and Singapore power generators and grid operators, use to predict solar power output five minutes to seven hours ahead."