News brief: Solar affair continues on Valentine’s Day
Investors still have feelings for solar. Especially when a leader posts unexpectedly strong results. Buoyed by a mammoth 30 percent gain yesterday on positive quarterly earnings, First Solar and other solar stocks are receiving more loving attention today.
Deal tracking: Big returns for Shenzhen Topraysolar?
The Chinese solar company has made moves to become the first solar company to trade in China. Details on this and 10 other deals in our weekly roundup of cleantech financings.
Exclusive: Fuel cell-powered cell phones materializing
One’s like a tricorder. Another, a BiC lighter. But fuel cell-powered mobile phones are starting to look more real, and – gasp! – even sexy.
Exclusive: Biofuel industries call studies “naïve”
Most media coverage of recent studies damning biofuels misses the full story, say biofuel proponents.
News brief: Spire patents quantum dot production
A new way to excite solar electrons, apt for Valentine’s Day.
Exclusive: Confessions of a green taxi company
Priuses make great taxis, cabbies say. So why aren’t there more of them?
News brief: Marine power project proposed in Maui
Aussies to float giant Fosters cans topped by turbines.
Exclusive: Painting solar Bloo
Bloo who? Don’t cry. It’s a nanotech solar company.
News brief: French researchers criticize hybrid vehicle craze
“Maybe they can make a new Citroen 2CV that runs off of snobby quips that gets one meter to the insult,” repostes critic of the French critics.
Staff blog: Dine at Chez H
If you can’t beat ’em, feed ’em. A cleantech startup is opening a restaurant to showcase its hydrogen-from-water generator.