The Daily Sprout

Written by Craig Rubens

Hydro Green Energy Brings More $ to Hydrokinetics: The Houston-based startup has just closed a $2.6 million round of funding led by the Quercus Trust. Hydro Green mounts its tidal turbines on barges, making deployment and maintenance easy - Release via VentureBeat.

Report on PHEV Design: Engineers from Toyota, Argonne National Laboratory and GM have presented a paper studying the impacts and limitations of hybrids and conclude, not surprisingly, that there must be battery density breakthroughs to further the technology - Green Car Congress.

Squeezing Biofuel from Fryolators and Algae: Researchers at Western Michigan University are working to find a better process to convert waste coking grease into biodiesel. In a separate, but equally glamorous, undertaking, WMU researchers are trying to develop a strain of algae that can be used to clean water and serve as biofuel feedstock - Renewable Energy World.

Calculate Your Web Conferencing Energy Savings: The maker of iLinc, web conferencing software, have added a new feature, “Green Meter,” to help you measure how much energy your company has saved by conferencing remotely as opposed to traveling - iLinc.

Fake Steve Jobs Blasts Real John Doerr: Criticizing Kleiner Perkins VC John Doerr for investing in biofuels while wanting to save the world, Fake Steve lays into the cleantech scene and accuses “Valley money” of “Valley hubris” - The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.

 
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