True friends share everything, from purses to lawnmowers to the limitless energy they pull from the sun, wind, and deep underground. Green Power Exchange aims to make one of those sharing scenarios a bit simpler. Green Power Exchange or GPX is running an ICO to create a coin that lets you trade energy. While there […]
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View More Want to talk about the future? Join me on TechnotopiaInvesting in frontier technology is (and isn’t) cleantech all over again
Shahin Farshchi Contributor Shahin Farshchi is a partner at Lux Capital. More posts by this contributor The dos and don’ts of crafting frontier-tech companies Five billion-dollar businesses for the driverless future I entered the world of venture investing a dozen years ago. Little did I know that I was embarking on a journey to master […]
View More Investing in frontier technology is (and isn’t) cleantech all over againRapChat raises $1.6 million to help you make and share your def jams
The first thing to understand about media sharing app RapChat is that co-founder Seth Miller is not a rapper and his friend, Pat Gibson, is. Together they created RapChat, a service for making and sharing raps, and the conjunction of rapper and nerd seems to be really taking off. Since we last looked at the […]
View More RapChat raises $1.6 million to help you make and share your def jamsBenevolentAI, which uses AI to develop drugs and energy solutions, nabs $115M at $2B valuation
In the ongoing race to build the best and smartest applications that tap into the advances of artificial intelligence, a startup out of London has raised a large round of funding to double down on solving persistent problems in areas like healthcare and energy . BenevolventAI announced today that it has raised $115 million to […]
View More BenevolentAI, which uses AI to develop drugs and energy solutions, nabs $115M at $2B valuationGoogle bought more renewable energy than it needed last year
Since 2017, Google pledged to power its data centres and offices with 100 percent renewable energy.
Now the tech company said it’s surpassed that, announcing in a blog post that it purchased more power from solar and wind than was used by its operati…
Massive solar power project will be 100 times larger than any in the world
The world’s biggest solar power project is coming to Saudi Arabia.
And it comes with a high price tag: around $200 billion. The venture, a partnership between Saudi Arabia and Japanese tech giant SoftBank, was revealed Tuesday, according to Blo…
Alphabet X spinout Dandelion raises $4.5M to built out its geothermal heating and cooling system for homes
Dandelion, a clean energy startup that was originally incubated inside Google parent Alphabet, has raised $4.5 million in funding to build out its business — a geothermal heating and cooling system for homes that claims it will drastically reduce its customers’ bills — it claims to cut bills in half (notwithstanding the upfront costs, more […]
View More Alphabet X spinout Dandelion raises $4.5M to built out its geothermal heating and cooling system for homesTesla is donating electric car chargers to select U.S. offices
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Keeping your electric car charged is a big part of maintenance for those living the gas-free life, so Tesla is now bringing its Wall Connectors to offices — and it’s installing them for free.
Tesla introduced this month the Workplace Charging program, which brings electric vehicle charging units to office buildings, so that employees can get a charge while they work.
The program gives employees an easy way to juice up their cars while they sit in a parking lot for eight hours during the workday.
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