GE’s Ecomagination Challenge- $200 million funding

http://challenge.ecomagination.com/ideas

GE’s Ecomagination Challenge is a $200 million call to action for businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators, and students to share their best ideas and come together to take on one of the world’s toughest challenges – building the next-generation power grid to meet the needs of the 21st century.

solar-powered light bulb

Out of the darkness with a solar-powered light bulb 

 

 

Light-Bending Polymer Sticker Boosts Solar Panel Output by 10%

Light-Bending Polymer Sticker Boosts Solar Panel Output by 10%

Lithium-ion deal plugs batteries into U.S. grid

Lithium-ion deal plugs batteries into U.S. grid

Cooling computers will be a growth industry.

A rough analysis by Jon Peddie gives us the rough numbers to indicate this will not only be a growth industry, but because cooler computer run faster, require less energy, and live longer - the "recycling" of computer systems will soon be a major portion of the computer industry. That is, not only will building be big, but recycling and reusing what we have will, by defacto, be a large fraction of the industry (my rough guess, at least 1/10 or 1/20).

Quadrillions and Quadrillions of Cycles
http://jonpeddie.com/blogs/comments/a-quadrillion-cycles/

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