Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 15:35:45 +0000
The takeaway here shouldn’t be that cleantech firms are high risk and over valued. The takeaway is that unscrupulous people found a way to fleece a lot of investors of a lot of money via SPACs.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:54:15 +0000
Energy Vault’s tech is not a solution, and while it would work at least for a while, it won’t be cheap, it will have lots of failure conditions and it will be high-carbon.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:49:54 +0000
Energy Vault’s solution which ‘fixes’ the problems with its first approach leads to CO2e per kWh numbers worse than natural gas generation, and makes a mockery of its claims of low cost storage.
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:08:49 +0000
Bill Gates was going to save the planet with breakthrough nuclear technology, but his new concentrating solar power venture is breaking through first