‘The green economy’ is an often-used but rarely defined term. While many understand that the term refers to the economic sector that produces goods and services with an environmental benefit, its precise size, shape, and contours are vague at best. Now, the Brookings Institution has compiled with the R&D company Battelle a report analyzing the green sector, whiich employed 2.7
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Transphorm, a California start-up, has developed a power conversion device based on gallium nitride that it says can cut energy waste by 90%. Now, 10% of the electricity generated is lost converting it from AC to direct current and back. If the device works, 300 coal plants could go off grid. GR
You don’t have to be an angel to find this New York Times article interesting. It says that venture capitalists invest these days not in green start-ups, but in more mature clean tech companies. It highlights one investment firm, Richard Branson’s Virgin Green Fund, and two companies, Quench and GreenRoad.
Venture capitalists invested billions in Silicon Valley’s technology firms. Their next big thing is sustainable agriculture. More and more are aware that conventional agriculture wastes water and energy, and worsens climate change. These concerns create markets for technological innovation.
The American South both consumes lots of fossil energy and lags in energy efficiency. A new study by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Duke University concluded that pushing higher efficiency aggresively would pay off in fewer power plants, more jobs, and lower utility bills.
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