Sundrop Fuels picks up eSolar technology for its solar hydrogen dish
A new solar technology that creates hydrogen as well as electricity is on the horizon. Sundrop Fuels, a stealthy New Mexico company with an innovative dish design, has licensed structural ideas from larger and better-known startup, eSolar, to create something unprecedented.
Sundrop has been secretive about its technology since its inception, but word of a $20 million investment from Kleiner Perkins slipped out earlier this year. With some digging, I turned up a few details... Continue Reading
The next solar boom may prove to be solar hydrogen
Almost everyone knows that solar cells and solar thermal, both of which are used to convert the sun’s rays directly to energy, are hot areas for investment right now. A third, related branch I’m seeing increasingly of late is using sunlight to create hydrogen, an alternative fuel that many have proposed as a gasoline replacement.
The latest investment is into a stealthy New Mexico-based company called Los Alamos Renewable Energy, which will soon be known... Continue Reading