‘Biomimicry’ involves copying nature’s playbook: Tyler Hamilton’s Star column this week checks out how mining mother nature’s ways can lead to sustainability innovations. Nature has a lot to teach us.
National Semiconductor Launches Smart Solar Chip: CNET reports that National Semi’s power optimization tech SolarMagic, which it launched two years ago, is now available as a chip that can be integrated into the junction box of a solar panels. It’s only been a separate product until now.
Bill Gates Bearish on How to Scale Clean Power Quickly: Bill Gates tells CNN that large scale renewable power is decades away and that the answers to unlocking energy storage are still largely unknown.
Energy at Scale: Paul Kedrosky blogs on a chart from Michael Cembalest at JP Morgan showing the energy transition needed at scale to move away from offshore oil. Unnerving.
Asian Lithium Ion Battery EV Market to Dominate for Next 5 Years: Pike Research expects Asian countries to generate 53 percent of an estimated $8 billion global market of lithiun ion batteries for electric vehicle sales by 2015.
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