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Cleantech Entrepreneurs; Hope Wanes For Intellectual Property Protection In China

September 28, 2011 by Jim Pierobon
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From this week’s RETECH conference and expo in Washington, DC, there seem few realistic aspirations for energy, clean tech and other entrepreneurs to protect their intellectual property if manufacturing in China or selling to Chinese markets. It is the 600-pound gorilla at just about every conference gathering with an Chinese dimension... [read more]

As Venture Capitalists Bow Out of Cleantech, Corporations Step In

August 9, 2011 by Tyler Hamilton
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My latest Clean Break column looks at how venture capitalists — impatient with lengthy returns on their investments and worried about the economic climate — are retreating from the cleantech space to less risky investment opportunities. Picking up the slack are corporate investors such as ABB, GE, and Siemens, who are making large... [read more]

Global Weekly: DuPont Extends into Solar Sector

July 28, 2011 by Dallas Kachan
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The biggest deal of the past week was made by chemical giant DuPont, which acquired InnovaLight, a California-based company that develops a silicon nanocrystalline ink for flexible solar panels. DuPont already had revenue of more than $1 billion in the solar market in 2010, and expects that to reach $2 billion by 2014. The week also... [read more]

VIDEO: Lost in the Ozone Again

May 2, 2011 by Michael Tobis
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So Andrew Dessler forwarded comments from Ted Parson on the history of the Montreal Protocol, in response to a point in the recent Nisbet opus.Parson's key claim (repeated here, on Deltoid, and recently on Grist) is:Yes, the claim that Montreal Protocol was easy because there was a substitute in hand is simply wrong, and the detailed... [read more]

Cooling with Less Warming: EPA Starts Refrigerant Changeover for Car Air Conditioners

March 25, 2011 by David Doniger
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The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a pair of decisions that begin a changeover of the refrigerants that do the cooling in car air conditioners.  Over the next few years, it will be out with the old (HFC-134a) and in with the new (HFO-1234yf).  We’ll be able to cool our cars with less global warming.  Both... [read more]

More chemical companies invest in solar

December 14, 2010 by Doris de Guzman
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The green blog's good friend Neil Burns recently posted on his own blog about the impacts of clean technologies in the energy and chemicals sectors, which reminded me of my fast-growing list of recent chemical company activities on clean tech especially from Dow Chemical and DuPont who seemed to be always talking about this billion... [read more]

DuPont solar sales exceed expectations

September 28, 2010 by ToddWallace
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DuPont announced that its sales of photovoltaic cells exceeded $1 billion this year alone, a goal achieved one year ahead of schedule. “Our broad portfolio of offerings spans crystalline silicon cells and modules as well as thin film modules, putting us in an ideal position to capitalize on market growth in both segments of the... [read more]

Chemicals profit in solar

May 3, 2010 by Doris de Guzman
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DuPont, Dow Corning, BASF, Wacker Chemie, Solutia (and other chemical companies) have been announcing left and right about recent developments and projects within the solar market -- especially solar encapsulants. According to DuPont, encapsulants are among the most important materials to solar module manufacturers for high-volume... [read more]

Why the Private Sector Can't Do Energy Alone

April 23, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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An op-ed from Microsoft's Bill Gates and DuPont's Chad Holliday gives voice to the private sector's support for public investment in clean energy because energy, as Breakthrough has long argued, "requires a public commitment." Gates and Holliday lay out three reasons why the private sector can't make this investment on its own: What... [read more]

DuPont: Beyond petroleum

March 28, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Yes, I know, that’s BP’s slogan. But if you are looking for a company that is trying to replace oil with renewable products, consider DuPont. Brands like Izod (left), Timberland and Calvin Klein Gold all sell clothes made with DuPont’s Sorona, a renewable feedstock made from corn rather than petrochemicals. You’ll also find Sorona in... [read more]

Strong algae momentum

March 4, 2010 by Doris de Guzman
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Two recent big news on the algae front are developments from Honeywell's UOP business and from DuPont. Both companies were able to get funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) - $1.5 million for UOP and $8.8 million for DuPont. In UOP's case, The funding will be used for the design of a demonstration system that will capture... [read more]

Is the solar slump over?

September 23, 2009 by Doris de Guzman
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Seems to me that solar is shining bright again from the recent activities I saw the past few weeks. Interestingly enough, most of the news are coming from chemical companies that developed new materials to make photovoltaics more efficient and cheaper. BASF presented its Seluris range of cutting fluids products for cutting, etching,... [read more]

Chemicals gain in solar energy

May 21, 2009 by Doris de Guzman
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It seems that whenever I get tons of wind energy news, the solar market is not far behind. According to this recent report from Linx-AEI Consulting, the global market for advanced chemicals and materials used in photovoltaic solar cells and modules might decline this year to $2.3 billion (probably because of the current economy) but... [read more]