Quick takes: Makani power
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Makani Power is developing an Airborne Wind Turbine to extract energy from the powerful, consistent winds at altitude.
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- -: Quick takes: Makani power
March 9, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Makani Power is developing an Airborne Wind Turbine to extract energy from the powerful, consistent winds at altitude.
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- -: Quick takes: Micromidas
March 9, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Micromidas, Inc. is a biotech company that uses an innovative microbial process to convert raw sewage into high-quality plastics.
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- -: Quick takes: Otherlab
March 9, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Otherlab is developing novel technologies specifically focused on steering sunlight at extremely low cost through low cost actuators and novel concentrator designs. Otherlab's systems eliminate weight in solar concentration systems and hence capital cost. Otherlab's sunlight steering technologies...
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- -: Quick takes: Hybrisol
March 9, 2012 (about 12 years ago)MIT is developing a thermal energy storage device that captures energy from the sun; this energy can be stored and released at a later time when it is needed most. Within the device, the absorption of sunlight causes the solar thermal fuel's photoactive molecules to change shape, which allows ene...
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- -: Quick takes: Steve Blank
March 9, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Steve Blank entrepreneur and author of The Startup Owner's Manual
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- -: Quick takes: OPX Biotechnologies, Inc.
March 9, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Researchers at OPX Biotechnologies, will develop and optimize a unique, engineered microorganism that produces a biodieselequivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 per gallon. Water will be the primary byproduct. The project will draw on OPX's proprie...
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- -: Champions of Change: Rebuilding America's Infrastructure
February 16, 2012 (about 12 years ago)The White House honors 11 local leaders as Champions of Change for creating jobs in their communities and using innovative techniques to develop valuable projects helping to improve America's infrastructure. With the assistance of grants and loans from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ...
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- -: Briefing on President Obama's FY 2013 Budget
February 13, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Jeffrey Zients discusses President Obama's FY 2013 Budget in a news conference. Alan Krueger, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council, and Cecilia Munoz, Director of the Domestic Policy ...
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- -: TEDxBodensee - Ingo Mayr-Knoch - DEINBUS.DE, das Startup und das Monopol
January 10, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Alexander Kuhr, Ingo Mayr-Knoch und Christian Janisch sind wohl das, was man erfolgreiche Jungunternehmer nennt: mit einer guten Idee haben sie mal eben eine ganze Branche umgekrempelt, und zwar keine geringere als den deutschen Fernverkehr. Mit ihrer Website DeinBus.de, auf der sich Fahrgemeinsc...
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- -: TEDxPhilly - Diana Lind - On dismantling urban highways in cities
December 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Diana Lind poses a challenge: let's re-imagine the future of urban transportation and tear-down highways that cut through our cities. Lind's talk discusses how forward-thinking cities have dismantled highway infrastructure ---- building vibrant public spaces in the face of car culture. In the cas...
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