The Daily Sprout
EPA Puts Up $50M to Clean Up Diesel Engines: Targeting buses, trucks, marine engines, locomotives and non-road engines the EPA has made $50 million in grants available to clean up America’s existing diesel fleet – Green Car Congress.
A Vegetable Oil-Powered Series Hybrid: Stealthy startup Electrorides is developing a “carbon-neutral” hybrid that uses biodiesel or filtered vegetable oil in a diesel engine to power an electric motor for small trucks – Greentech Media.
“Concentrating On The Important Things – Solar Thermal Power”: The folks at The Oil Drum have put together a fantastic state of the solar thermal world, a must read for anyone who wants to know where the energy industry is going – The Oil Drum.
Do We Have the Technology to Mitigate Climate Change?: NYTimes reporter and blogger Andrew Revkin has started a discussion on premise advanced in the journal Nature that contends current climate mitigation discussion is deeply flawed because it doesn’t properly address our technological limitations – Dot Earth.
Illumitex Gets $10.5M for Solid-State Lighting: The Austin, Texas-based startup called down $5.25 million of a $10.5 million Series B round led New Enterprise Associates and Aweida Capital and rejoined by DFJ Mercury – PEHub.
Van Jones Talks Green Collar Jobs with Colbert: The best line is from Colbert when he refers to Jones’s bald pate as “a solar panel for a love machine up there.”
