May 16, 2012

Cleantech investors have high hopes for the nexus of software and energy—sometimes dubbed “cleanweb,” a term coined by Sunil Paul of Spring Ventures—after disappointing returns on many cleantech investments. Although companies in renewable energy generation and storage are critical for our energy industry to change, innovative software combined with...

May 10, 2012

Sebastian Titz, from the corporate VC arm of 3M, talks to MIT Entrepreneurship Review about new investment opportunities renewable energy and makes the bold claim that renewable energy, aside from wind and solar, will not happen in the next 30 years. About More Posts...

Apr 16, 2012

Save for the era of Thomas Edison, it has never been a better time to be a cleantech entrepreneur. A new generation of forward-thinking entrepreneurs is making leaps and bounds as global regions update their energy infrastructure with new, “smart,” and “clean” elements. The “smart grid,” which is essentially an “energy Internet” and...

Sep 14, 2010

Everyday, technically minded PhD students around the world toil in their labs and meticulously document their findings. Whether they are spinning their wheels or are on the brink of revolutionary discoveries, they work with the hope that one-day the pages of their lab notebook will tell the story of a new breakthrough technology. Dr. Ory Zik knows this feeling...

Sep 14, 2010

Imagine filling up the fuel tank of your sedan and being able to drive from Boston to Atlanta on a single tank of gas1.  Imagine a ride so quiet; all you can hear as you drive through the mountains are the road and the wind.  While this may sound like a vision of the future, methanol fuel cells can make this possible. As global demand for low carbon emission...