Greener News » cleantech http://greenernewsblog.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:28:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Venture Funding for Cleantech on the Rebound http://greenernewsblog.com/2009/07/venture-funding-for-cleantech-on-the-rebound/ http://greenernewsblog.com/2009/07/venture-funding-for-cleantech-on-the-rebound/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:06:57 +0000 Shambhu Vineberg http://greenernews.wordpress.com/?p=119 arrow-upThe San Jose Mercury News reports: After two sharp quarterly declines, worldwide venture funding for clean technologies rebounded in the second quarter of 2009 amid rising confidence — particularly in Silicon Valley and throughout California.

From April to June, venture investments in clean tech totaled $1.2 billion across 94 companies, according to preliminary results released Wednesday by The Cleantech Group, a San Francisco research and strategy firm, and Deloitte & Touche.

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The Royal Society of Chemistry reports that US researchers have developed an efficient way of producing hydrogen from urine – a feat that could not only fuel the cars of the future, but could also help clean up municipal wastewater.

Using hydrogen to power cars has become an increasingly attractive transportation fuel, as the only emission produced is water – but a major stumbling block is the lack of a cheap, renewable source of the fuel. Gerardine Botte of Ohio University may now have found the answer, using an electrolytic approach to produce hydrogen from urine – the most abundant waste on Earth – at a fraction of the cost of producing hydrogen from water.

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