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- Solar to feds: Let's be creative about incentives for alternative energy investment
- Remember how happy all the alternative energy tech companies were late last year when the government renewed the tax incentives possible for investing in their products? Well, now things are a little less euphoric, as the Obama administration grapples with how certain components of mammoth economic stimulus plan should REALLY...
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Doerr: Obama's tech focus and how tech companies can ride the storm
- Venture Capitalist John Doerr, appearing at the Web 2.0 Summit, said that there are thing that the incoming Obama administration can do to help the tech industry, starting with a focus on energy, basic research and higher education - the recipe that started the Internet. "We need...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Follow the money
- We've all seen trillions of dollars of alleged assets disappear in recent weeks. A few big-time financial firms as well. This is having reverberations across the greentech energy sector. Here's a story on a wind-power project in Michigan that is now waiting for another gust of capital....
- Blog posts 2008-11-01
- It's official gasoline now over $4 per gallon average in U.S.
- And that can only mean more interest and investment in clean tech. The AAA gas price survey topped $4 per gallon for the first time today. Morgan Stanley analysts have already said crude oil futures should hit $150 per barrel by July 4th. And you...
- Blog posts 2008-06-08
- Who's tops in wind? The Spanish.
- Courtesy: Iberdrola. An annually updated ranking of wind energy companies shows Iberdrola is now Numero Uno. Every year Emerging Energy Research tracks the top wind energy companies based on how much electricity they generate. Spanish-based Iberdrola is now ahead of the previous leader,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Alternative energy? BIG investment, as we've been predicting. Teensy compared to Big Oil
- Four major components of the alternative energy industry are expanding rapidly. They continue to garner ever more investment. A new market study shows major year-to-year investment growth for biofuels, wind power, solar photovoltaics, and fuel cells. A study by Clean Edge shows the sector's investment cachet and...
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
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- Smart Planet: Turning algae into oil the NASA way
- now this is cooloil is a great portable energy source. I'm all for making it as cheap and abundant as possible.RE: Smart Planet: Turning algae into oil the NASA way1. Dr. Trent should re-read the NREL 1998 report on its 20 years of research into algae as a fuel source...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-27
- A bit more money for the greentech ventures
- Bet they invested in Ethanol tooWhenever I hear news stories about the world wide shortage of food (you greenies don't seem to talk about that for some reason that I can't fathom) I wonder what all those hungry people think when they hear that in America, our government forces us...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-16
- McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impact
- Forget carbon footprint measures for a moment. How much money could be poured back into the U.S. economy if people spent more time worrying about wasted energy consumption? McKinsey & Company has come up with a number in a new report about "unlocking energy efficiency in the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Green shoots
- I would not hazard a guess about what's happening to the storied "green shoots" in the American or global economies. There are many economists and financial "experts" hazarding widely divergent guesses already. I will guess that green technology continues to have appeal in many nations. Green shoots...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Cloud and upgraded computing future brightens despite overcast economy, Microsoft-sponsored survey finds
- Cloud and upgraded computing future brightens despite overcast economy, Microsoft-sponsored survey findsMore Benefits to Virtualization The current economic conditions have forced IT managers to look long and hard at every IT purchase. Naturally, virtualization has bubbled to the top as a popular investment for IT managers as it offers...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- CODA and Corefino ink cloud accounting partnership
- CODA, which has developed an on-demand financial application built on the Force.com platform has inked a partnership deal with Corefino, the Sunnyvale CA. based accounting outsourcer. Dubbed Corefino2go, the service sees CODA providing the technology requirements for Corefino's people, place and platform offering. Karen Watts, Corefino's CEO...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Green boom busted?
- Green boom busted?Silly thing about investorsThey want a guarantee of a return. And unfortunately this alternative energy thing is a tough nut to crack. The only forms of energy that seem to work reliably and cheaply other than burning things are wind, which is still not so reliable because the...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-04
- Green boom busted?
- The global outlook for clean tech energy investment is gloomy. A report by the International Energy Agency IEA finds that investing in alternative energy is slumping. The IEA expects green energy investment to fall below the 2007 level, far off of last year's record topping $80-billion US. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- LEDs get royal treatment, will they save the planet?
- LEDs get royal treatment, will they save the planet?We have mostly CFLs in our house.They are very bright for the wattage the use. They also have different spectrum values. But the mercury is a nasty drawback. I hope the LEDs will have a similar selection of the...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-31
- AT&T's First (well not quite first) Chief Sustainability Officer
- The AT&T PR luvvies pushed out a tweet today announcing they had freshly minted their first Chief Sustainability Officer CSO. I took a closer look and it turns out the newly appointed Charlene Lake has been in situ since last year albeit with the slightly more modest title of VP Public Affairs Corporate Citizenship and...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Thirsty ethanol? An insider's view.
- An exec from an energy company has repliedc to my earlier blog on a study of ethanol production and its water requirements. Here are some comments from Growth Energy’s CEO, Tom Buis. “America’s ethanol producers recognize that water is a precious natural resource that must be...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?
- As it looks more and more like the U.S. government might actually take action to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, the proponents and opponents of any action are getting more strident. The politics are getting more brutal. President Obama is hosting a conference on global warming...
- Blog posts 2009-03-28
- Green auto racing? Are they kidding?
- Green auto racing? Are they kidding?shut down sports thenThose lights at outdoor arenas all over the world, there must be hundreds of thousands of them, and the miles driven to get there? - and what about TV sets we watch events on, or TVs in general? and PCs, what...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-05
- Solar to feds: Let
- Solar to feds: LetObama's energy plan includes "Clean" CoalThere is no doubt Obama likes Cleancoal .. Although there is no such thing as "Clean" coal ..There is "CLEANER" coal...Investment into new "Cleaner" coal energy..Using I.G.C.C...Or Coal Gasification may be a good avenue to invest in...Along with a fair balanced energy...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-04
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