I think this may be my start of blogging on wordpress. I have maintained a blog at http://bilalzuberi.blogspot.com for several years but it seems like wordpress will provide me with greater flexibility and ease of use. I will try it for a while and lets see how it works.
BZNotes!
Musings of Bilal Zuberi. Random is OK.
News I Am Reading- DOE Doles Out $620M for Smart Grid November 24, 2009The government is giving money to 32 projects for demonstrating a host of equipment and software to manage energy supply and demand.
- Xtreme Power: Super Dry Battery November 25, 2009The Texas-based company has revived a battery technology it says can last 20 years, discharge like a capacitor, and keep working after being shot up with a machine gun.
- Renewable Energy Trust Moves to Clean Energy Center November 25, 2009energy, investment, Massachusetts Wade Roush wrote: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed legislation this week that gives the Renewable Energy Trust, formerly a unit of the quasi-public Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, a new home: the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. The Renewable Energy Trust—an investment fund that comes from surcharge on M […]
- KEMA sees clear roadmap for nation’s massive grid transformation November 19, 2009KEMA is offering insight on and solutions for keeping smart projects on track in the post-stimulus award era. The US is at a point of historic transformation of the electric grid infrastructure. Implementing the smart grid on a national scale poses significant challenges—and opportunities—both for projects selected for a US Department of Energy (DOE) Smart G […]
- Turning heat to electricity November 18, 2009In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of that wasted heat and turn it into usable electricity.That kind of waste-energy harvesting might, for examp […]
- The Law of Large Numbers November 10, 2009There have been a number of great venture-backed acquisitions recently, and WSJ.com does a great job outlining the Top 10 acquisitions that have closed this year. Here they are: Zappos ($847M) CoreValve ($700M) Pure Digital ($590M) Visiogen ($400M) SpringSource ($362M) BBN Technologies ($350M) Evalve ($320M) Ablation Frontiers ($225M) Mint Software ($170M) […]
- The Case For Gold & The Case Against Gold November 19, 2009I’ve been looking unsuccessfully for an article that succinctly lays out both sides of the debate on whether gold is a good asset to own. So, I’m here to ask for your assistance in pulling together an article that outlines the key points on both sides of the debate. I have some ideas, but I’m sure you have more. Just leave any points of view, good article […]
- Succeeding With A Potential Single Point Of Failure November 22, 2009I’ve had the opportunity to invest in two companies that I’d describe as having a “potential single point of failure”. I chose to invest in one – Verid. And decided, unfortunately, to pass on another – Mint. Verid was ultimately sold to EMC/RSA less than two years after our investment for several multiples of our capital. And Mint was recently acquired b […]
- Wrapping solar cells around an optical fiber November 3, 2009(MIT Technology Review Article) Credit: Angewandte Chemie International EditionDye-sensitized solar cells are flexible and inexpensive to make, but they tend to be inefficient at converting light into electricity. One way to boost the performance of any solar cell is to increase the surface area available to incoming light. So a group of researchers has made […]
- Total Signs Research Agreement with MIT to Develop New Stationary Batteries for Solar Power; Smaller-Scale Version of All-Liquid Metal Battery Work Supported by ARPA-E November 20, 2009Total has signed a research agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new stationary batteries that are designed to enable the storage of solar power. This agreement valued at $4 million over five years is part of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), which Total joined as a member in November 2008. The batteries are envisioned t […]
- DOE Doles Out $620M for Smart Grid November 24, 2009
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