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Khosla: Don't Save the Dinosaurs

Well-known greentech VC Vinod Khosla has an opinion piece in a national news mag today...and it calls for letting Detroit's auto dinosaurs wander around among the financial ferns until they die, or evolve into more agile creatures. Khosla's argument is cogent and backed by much of recent...

Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., VC Vinod Khosla, Chevy Volt, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Just as old media once berated and belittled the Internet as a silly fad, now too with cleantech

That venerable pillar of old, very established business, the Wall Street Journal has gone public with the bitter resentment of old business and fossil fuel for those upstarts who are trying to shift the business model. The editorial attacking VC Vinod Khosla is just one volley in what will...

Tags: Biofuel, Wall Street Journal, Media, Business, Clean Technology, VC Vinod Khosla, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-21

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There's still VC juice out there for greentech firms

A Washington State solar power company just got over three million dollars in additional funding. Earlier Infinia had investments from both Vinod Khosla and Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. That's another little tech company based in Washington State. Infinia uses parabolic dishes to focus...

Tags: Solar Energy, Infinia Website, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

What powers the richest Americans?

Right now there are no greentech billionaires on Forbes' list of the 400 richest Americans. That could change. But there are over two dozen billionaires who depend directly on the fossil fuel industry for their wealth. That is just one reason it'll be very hard to reform...

Tags: Billionaire, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Biofuel fraud exposes some big names

A court has awarded over $10-million in damages for fraud perpetrated by Cello, a biofuel company. If you've read Anthony Trollope's THE WAY WE LIVE NOW you could have predicted something like this. Scams are as old as the stock market. If you follow any current headlines you...

Tags: Biofuel, Fraud, Biofuel Fraud, Scams, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-04

Greenest billionaires? Guess who's on top...

#1 eco-billionaire according to the "Sunday Times" in Britain: Warren Buffett, the money man of Omaha. He is listed as major player in wind energy. The "Times" just published its annual "Green Rich List." It's necessary to note that this newspaper is owned by Rupert Murdoch, but of course...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Healthcare, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Khosla: Don't Save the Dinosaurs

Khosla: Don't Save the DinosaursFacts, schmacts who needs themHere's an interesting articlehttp://freep.com/article/20081205/COL14/812050400Love them pollsI note there isn't an "I disagree" response that doesn't disparage the proponent. Maybe something like: "I disagree because helping the automakers is better than letting them fail", or maybe, "I disagree, but the automakers shouldn't...

Tags: Manufacturing, automobile company, Khosla, Dinosaur, New Car

Discussion threads 2008-12-05

Bulls in the corn field, beware! Ethanol from corn? Mooooo.

Those are market bulls of the two-legged sort similar to the ones currently jacking up crude oil futures. The next great investment bubble may focus on the fields of Iowa. Today's Department of Agriculture numbers on the American corn crop (the world's largest) are not encouraging for corn...

Tags: Biofuel, Corn, Corn Production, Current Estimate, Khosla, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Market disaster on Wall Street plays positive in Silicon Valley

You may think the U.S. is divided along political lines, perhaps you sense a rift in cultural values. But let me tell you that's peanuts compared to the coming brutal high-stakes rift over the core of the US economy. Will it be Pentagon contracts, oil and gasoline? ...

Tags: Clean Technology, Wall, Construction, Mortgages, Investment, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-07

Jobs or air pollution--is this a false dicotomy?

It looks like battles over the environment and global warming are likely to be central to the American political system for months, perhaps years, to come. Right now the punditocracy and the lobbyists on both sides are tossing rockets over a bill about global warming. The bill is...

Tags: Job, Turbine, Pollution, Clean Technology, Global Warming, Bubble, Second,it, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Energy and food becoming global battlegrounds while high profile VC becomes lightning rod

Energy. Food. Money. The nexus is fraught with political disagreement, high intensity accuations and lots of potential for profit, or disaster. All depends on who you listen to. If the era of cheap petroleum is truly and forever dead, then these battles shall only get more nasty,...

Tags: Brazil, Food, Biofuel, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Haves vs. haves: corn and cows and the men who love them

We urbanites are sitting in the bleachers for what portends to be a helluva gladiatorial battle. Corn. Cows. And it's all being fought over energy and centers, as all fine money matters in "cleantech," around the EPA. Here's what's up: Texas is a...

Tags: Biofuel, Texas, Corn, Iowa, Generation Biofuel Folk, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-26

High tech: respected in Europe, projected in the U.S.

The European Commission is turning to high tech to solve its low energy blues. Specifically, the EC is hoping to see real progress in lowering greenhouse gas emissions by making buildings and power systems much more efficient. Not a new idea but one not embraced equally by other governments...

Tags: Biofuel, General Motors Corp., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-18

Will little Xobni outhustle Microsoft in making Outlook more usable?

Xobni ("inbox" spelled backwards) has just gotten an investment from the legendary VC and Sun co-founder Vinod Khosla and others in modest series A funding. The company is developing intelligent add-ons for Microsoft Exchange/Outlook that offer a higher degree of control and smarts to your inbox. According the company, Xobni...

Tags: e-mail, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook

Blog posts 2007-03-26

Highlight reel from the D conference

The D: All Things Digital blog posts here put on by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher with help from WSJ was a rare event. Of course, the venue (Four Seasons, Carlsbad) and food were good for those who cared, and the attendees included a strange assemblage of well-heeled personalities. The...

Tags: Sony Corp., Al Gore, Howard Stringer

Blog posts 2006-06-01