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January 8, 2013

Energy Cache: Avoiding Cleantech's Catch-22

Richard Stuebi, Cleantech Blog


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Recently, I came across this very interesting thought-piece, “Cleantech Marketing Isn’t IT Marketing”, written by Aaron Fike, the founder and CEO of Energy Cache.

Energy Cache has developed a rather unusual energy storage technology.  As described here, Energy Cache is offering a solution that is a hybrid of ski-lifts and mining technology, hauling gravel in buckets to the top of a hill.  An offshoot of pumped hydro, Energy...

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