Will Alternative Energy Growth Tank During New Fossil-Fuel Glut? [Slide Show]

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 15:37 in Physics & Chemistry

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The artificial leaf promised to revolutionize the world by bringing reliable modern energy to those mired in poverty. But the company founded to commercialize the research--Sun Catalytix--has found that it needs to concentrate its efforts on something likely to make money in the nearer term, namely the kind of flow batteries that might provide large amounts of energy storage on the U.S. electric grid. [More]

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