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At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco on Wednesday, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk says he bets that it could be capacitors — rather than batteries — that will deliver an important breakthrough for electric transportation, an interesting comment from a CEO whose products are based on lithium-ion batteries Read more »

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EnerG2, a company working on synthetic carbon materials for energy storage devices, hit pay dirt last summer with the award of a stimulus grant under a DOE program. Today, in Albany, Ore., the startup at last kicked off construction of the factory made possible by that grant. Read more »

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Amid heated debates over clean power sources, how to build out the smart grid, and the future of advanced transportation, one thing’s clear: Energy storage technology will play a key role in all of these transformations. Energy storage — from batteries to ultracapacitors to pumped hydro […] Read more »

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Ultracapacitors, energy storage devices that can deliver quick bursts of intense power and withstand more charge and discharge cycles than batteries, could provide a twofer — disrupt the vehicle market and revolutionize the power grid. That’s the basic pitch from developers of next-gen ultracapacitors (most audibly […] Read more »

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Biofuels Go Bust: “The wave of biodiesel failures,” combined with the inability of Khosla-backed Cello Energy “to produce even a fraction of what it expected have spooked private investors, which could further delay technology breakthroughs and derail the government’s green energy objectives.” — Wall Street Journal […] Read more »

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The biggest grants awarded this week under the Department of Energy’s $2.4 billion electric vehicle battery initiative went to big-name companies: battery giant Johnson Controls, IPO-hopeful A123Systems, General Motors, Dow Kokam and LG Chem’s Compact Power all snagged more than $150 million each. But some lesser-known […] Read more »

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Smarter PC Power Management: A new webcam application called PecoBOO uses facial recognition — rather than mouse movements — to determine whether or not there is a user in front of the PC. If the user moves away, after 15 minutes, the computer goes into its […] Read more »

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Google is looking to get into games, according to CNN Money, and before this week is out, should be announcing a deal to buy Adscape Media Inc., and through them, work with publishers to feed ads through the Internet into their online games. (Presumably, the elevator […] Read more »

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