In order to lower business risk associated with generating power from winds hundreds of meters up in the sky, Makani Power needs to accomplish at least one goal: launch, land and fly its kite-like wind turbines via computers. Good thing it recently scored a DOE grant. Read More »
Cleantech
There are two types of ideas out there. The baby-shaking-iPhone-game type (bad). And the add-cherry-syrup-to-Coca-Cola kind (good). Here’s a really good idea that Google can use that could make a serious dent in climate change: add carbon emissions data to Google Maps, so users looking… Read More »
Saul Griffith, the president and chief scientist of Makani Power and founder of WattzOn, gave a fantastic presentation at our Green:Net conference. We also sat down with him at the show to chat more about his projects: What has he learned from… Read More »
In addition to the new Aptera specs and the debut of the new Mission One electric motorcycle, the 2009 TED Conference has had plenty of cleantech entrepreneurs up on stage this week. Shai Agassi, CEO of Better Place, spoke yesterday, throwing out the… Read More »
A visual representation of your life’s energy consumption will probably make you feel pretty guilty — or, at least cognizant enough to make some changes in your behavior. That’s the idea behind Wattzon.com, a web site launched today by Saul Griffith, the co-founder of high… Read More »
