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jun 25
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Amazon Launches $2 Billion Climate Venture Capital Fund

E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is launching a Climate Pledge Fund that will invest in companies developing products, services, a...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

jan 21
1 minuten

Scientific research on different scenario's towards no-carbon energy for Europe

Excellent study "Cost-optimal reliable power generation in a deep decarbonisation future" with simulation runs of different scenario's fo...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

jan 21
1 minuten

Dutch entrepreneur magazine Quote selects LeydenJar for top 25 "most promising Dutch start-ups"

Quote magazine published their annual list of top 25 "most promising Dutch start-ups. LeydenJar Technologies, in which we made a seed inv...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

jan 3
1 minuten

Impacts of Green New Deal Energy Plans on Grid Stability, Costs, Jobs, Health, and Climate

Excellent long-read article by group of Stanford University scientists on how the World could become totally carbon-free in 2050. After a...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

26 nov 2019
1 minuten

LeydenJar to open pilot plant for high energy density batteries

Dutch startup LeydenJar is opening a pilot plant for manufacturing new-generation batteries that store up to 50 percent more energy. We i...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

7 nov 2019
1 minuten

Levelized Cost of Energy and Levelized Cost of Storage 2018

Interesting overview of the ownership costs of various energy and storage solutions made by Lazard, a financial advisory and asset manage...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

6 nov 2019
1 minuten

Can planting trees compensate for flying?

Here is a good article on this. And here a good attempt to calculate the number of trees needed for a flight. There are some critical no...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

24 sep 2019
1 minuten

The Economist article: Climate capitalists have serious money in climate-friendly investments

Nice article listing some of the largest investors in clean energy ventures.

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Pjotr van Schothorst

19 sep 2019
1 minuten

How Inexpensive Must Energy Storage Be for Utilities to Switch to 100 Percent Renewables?

Interesting article, with a look from another perspective than the usual technical approach.

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Pjotr van Schothorst

5 aug 2019
1 minuten

Which options do we have to make flying CO2-neutral?

Excellent report (in Dutch) by engineering company RoyalHaskoningDHV, which analyzes all the options there currently are for reducing the...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

15 jul 2019
1 minuten

Fusion Energy Startups See Renewables Leaving a Gap in Power Market

Study shows wind and solar alone can’t deliver enough electricity to meet the world’s growing needs. Good article in Bloomberg confirms t...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

5 jul 2019
1 minuten

Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis

Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide. Good article in the Guardian, referring to a s...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

4 jul 2019
1 minuten

Renewable Energy Is Booming in the USA

One year ago, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) launched its $1T 2030 campaign to promote $1 trillion in U.S. private sect...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

13 jun 2019
1 minuten

Good article on CO2 capture and storage solutions in Fast Company magazine

Fast Magazine published an interesting longread article on carbon capture and storage solutions and start-up companies that commercialize...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

2 jun 2019
1 minuten

Airplane fuel from CO2 and green electricity

Good initiative at Rotterdam Airport. Is this the future of flying? https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/05/20190531-rotterdam.html

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Pjotr van Schothorst

20 mei 2019
1 minuten

The miracle of China's high-speed trains

Great video by Wendover Productions on the miracle of China's high-speed train system, which was realized in just 8 years time. Unfortuna...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

15 mei 2019
1 minuten

Good article on nuclear fusion in the New York Times

Article abocommercut a British company, First Light Fusion, one of the commercial companies striving for nuclear fusion. The Fusion React...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

11 mei 2019
1 minuten

Interesting analysis from Bloomberg on electric vehicles

https://bnef.turtl.co/story/evo2018?teaser=true Here also their new energy outlook : https://bnef.turtl.co/story/neo2018?teaser=true

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Pjotr van Schothorst

2 mei 2019
1 minuten

Why Startups Fail

Good article in Forbes, based on 300 interviews with failed start-up owners carried out by CB Insights. Number one reason: not enough cli...

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Pjotr van Schothorst

2 mei 2019
1 minuten

Excellent presentation by Tony Seba on the upcoming disruption by electric vehicles and energy

'Rethinking the Future - Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation' is Tony Seba's opening keynote at the 70th annual Conference on W...

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