Monday, May 30, 2011

50m€ Venture Capital for Energy Startups

Gamesa, a basque Wind energy firm, has recently launched a corporate venture capital fund.

The 6 key areas for this fund are:

  • wave (converting tidal currents and waves into energy);
  • next generation photovoltaic energy (converting the sun's photonic energy into electricity);
  • energy storage designed to guarantee high-quality supply;
  • green mobility (electric vehicles);
  • energy efficiency (maximising energy use while minimising consumption);
  • and off-grid (small renewable generation units that are not connected to power grids, for use in remote locations).

Further information, please contact Gamesa site.

Gamesa received the visits of president Obama in 2008 and recently in April 2011. Here is the white house video of the last visit:

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Max Planck Meteorology Institute Director in Bilbao, Basque Country


Klaus Hasselmann, director of the Max Planck Metereology Institute and ex-director of the German High Performance Computing Centre DKRZ gave a talk in Bilbao at the Basque Climate Change Centre in the context of the KlimaGune Workshop. This workshop aims to Address the Climate Change through Adaptation and is in line with a prominent and successful Basque Research Ecosystem.

The slides of the talk from a very interesting and humble pioneer of advanced high performance computing here.

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Monday, May 23, 2011

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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Bilbao, the city -Why should your HPC project be in the Basque Country?

Today's video is Basque Country's biggest city: Bilbao



This video was played at the Shangai's Exhibition.