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Polymer metering advance

Envirotec Magazine

The highly innovative design of Qdos pumps means the only part of the pump that ever requires replacing is the patented ReNu pumphead. There is no need for diaphragms, valves, or seals that risk clogging. The ReNu pumphead offers repeatable, accurate flow rates, and lasts longer for tough applications in the field. The Qdos 60 PU.

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Renewable technology innovation: measuring progress – IRENA

Smart Energy International

In a new study, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has aimed to address this issue, gathering data on the costs and performance of selected renewable technologies as well as on patents and standards with the goal to provide a quantitative measure of innovation progress. Patents and standards.

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Graphene-based packaging presented as first truly biodegradeable and compostable alternative to plastic

Envirotec Magazine

.” The biopolymers are combined with graphene, a variant of carbon (or allotrope , to be precise) whose modern rediscovery and isolation at the University of Manchester in 2004 led to a Nobel Prize.

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Shell Buys Floating Wind Developer Eolfi

GreenTechMedia

Since its founding in 2004 Eolfi has almost 500 megawatts of onshore wind and 150 megawatts of solar built or shovel ready. Eolfi’s R&D includes patented Lidar bouys to monitor wind resources at sea and floating wind optimization software.

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China’s PV plants are booming, but is that good news for the fight against climate change?

Renewable Energy World

For the past decade and a half, China became the dominant player in the PV manufacturing field, after the sector received critical help from government subsidies back in 2004. The factory is only one of many others expected to be constructed in the coming year, as part of China’s globally-leading PV manufacturing scheme.

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Ask a Climate Innovator?—?Haley Marie Keith, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at MITO…

Clean Energy Trust

During my MBA, MITO’s original technology was sitting on the shelf, patent-pending, and still in development. Discovered in 2004, graphene was the new “wonder material”?—?the I came across a novel nanomaterial in a class at Oklahoma State University. How did you get started in cleantech and what led you to your current role?

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Cultured Meat Will Cost Startups $150m-$370m (and Take At Least 4 More Years) to Bring to Market

AFN Sustainable Protein

Solazyme , a Silicon Valley-based algae biofuel company raised $146 million from 2004-2010 to produce a sustainable ethanol equivalent that it publicly assured would reach price parity with traditional ethanol. But these estimated costs call into question the timelines presented by some startups to bring their products to market.