Thursday, January 23, 2025
NREL Can Develop Clean Tech, but Getting it To Commercial Stage Is a Persistent Challenge - Oil & Gas 360

NREL Can Develop Clean Tech, but Getting it To Commercial Stage Is a Persistent Challenge

Looking at some of the coolest technologies from Golden, Colorado-based NREL GOLDEN, Colo. (UPI) — Innovations emerging from Colorado’s National Renewable Energy Labs (NREL) last year captured the world’s imagination:  Paint-on solar panels, plastic-eating bacteria, windows that double as solar collectors. But taking those proven “clean tech” ideas out of the lab and into consumer products has proved to be a