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CNET - Giant kites to tap power of the high wind - The ObserverDutch researchers show that flying kites high to generate electricity is not such a crazy idea. Google has invested in a company trying to tap high wind currents as well. ... Source: news.yahoo.com --- 30 days ago
CNET - While many headlines from Sen. Barack Obama's speech on energy policy on Monday focused on tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a look at the details shows a significant pledge to Clean technologies. ... Source: www.wired.com --- 23 days ago
News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio If Content Is King, AOL Is a Handsome Prince Frank Quattrone Pines for the Old Days NBCOlympics.com: OK Traffic, but Not Great Subscribe to Portfolio magazine From wind turbines to water purification systems, from solar panels to CO2 capture, suddenly, if you're an investor with money to burn, environmental technology has become the biggest game in town. The problem: Venture capital firms and private equity shops are discovering that while dot-com startups are easily fashioned by mavericks and whiz kids, there are few rogue entrepreneurs with the chops to handle the complexities of environmental technology, much less to invent it. The finance guys' big problem, however, is a potential gold mine for academia. Take Potentia, a green Tech startup conceived by University of Michigan PhD students Tzeno Galchev ad Ruba Borno in conjunction with MBA student Rishiraj Das, and facilitated by Michigan's Zell-Lurie Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies. The Institute was founded to introduce engineering students to new venture opportunities and help them bring their inventions to market. In addition to offering a business curriculum, it serves as an umbrella organization for grants and competitions for the benefit of new startups -- such as last September's Clean Tech Forum for venture capitalists. Potentia, which manufactures an environmental energy powered battery, was the runner-up in the center's ... Source: www.news.com --- 8 days ago
Long-time Clean-Tech investor Nancy Floyd of Nth Power says Obama's energy proposals are favorable to developing the green-technology industry in the U.S. ... Source: www.news.com --- 31 days ago
Blog: Plus: the godfather of the plug-in hybrid; Energy Department's Clean-energy guru moves on; Indian VCs look at Clean Tech; questions for T. Boone Pickens. ... Source: www.news.com --- 15 hours ago
"Clean Tech and Green Business for Obama" aims to raise $1 million for the Democratic presidential nominee while elevating issues of climate change and alternative energy. ...
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Barack Obama's energy plan has a hefty dose of Clean Tech, with calls for renewable energy, energy efficiency, carbon regulation and plug-in hybrid manufacturing. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 33 days ago
The intersection of nanotech and the growing 'Clean Tech' industry is important for the nanotech sector and could become equally significant for Clean Tech, according to Duncan Stewart, head of Canadian research at Deloitte Consulting. ... Source: blogs.zdnet.com --- 7 days ago
Clean-Tech is getting more and more political. With so much money and government subsidy, or not, at stake, it was inevitable. A leading greentech venture capitalist spoke at the Democratic Convention. And the governor of Montana spoke about declaring energy independence for America, and added we Americans could not simply drill our [...] ... Source: news.com.au --- 24 days ago
UNLIKE its namesake city on The Simpsons , Queensland's Springfield aims to become a hub for companies developing green technologies. ... Source: radar.oreilly.com --- 24 days ago
[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly ] All civilization depends on energy, and always has done so. Oil is rising rapidly in price and alternative energy and energy consumption management have become viable businesses. We're interested in the IT use of energy technology (green data centers) and the energy industry's use of IT (smart monitors, intelligent grids, data center placement). Watchlist: IBM / Sun / Google , Amazon/ Microsoft , Wattzon , Vinod Khosla . ... Source: www.marketwire.com --- 30 days ago
PALO ALTO, CA (MARKET WIRE) The Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory will support the Green Building competition of the Clean Tech Open's 2008 Competition. The prize will reward a project that reduces the environmental impact of building construction or operation through improved design or construction practices, new or innovative use of building materials, or new hardware or software applications. The prize is part of a package that provides the winning company with $50,000 from the Clean Tech Open and all the essentials necessary to help take its idea from concept to business, including free ... Source: www.usnews.com --- 8 days ago
How one startup is addressing the problem of motorcycles and carbon emissions. ...
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Source: www.portfolio.com --- 24 days ago
F rom wind turbines to water purification systems, from solar panels to CO2 capture, suddenly, if you're an investor with money to burn, environmental technology has become the biggest game in town. The problem: Venture capital firms and private equity shops are discovering that while dot-com startups are easily fashioned by mavericks and whiz kids, there are few rogue entrepreneurs with the chops to handle the complexities of environmental technology, much less to invent it. The finance guys’ big problem, however, is a potential gold mine for academia. Take Potentia, a green Tech startup conceived by University of Michigan PhD students Tzeno Galchev ad Ruba Borno in conjunction with MBA student Rishiraj Das, and facilitated by Michigan's Zell-Lurie Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies. The Institute was founded to introduce engineering students to new venture opportunities and help them bring their inventions to market. In addition to offering a business curriculum, it serves as an umbrella organization for grants and competitions for the benefit of new startups–such as last September’s, Clean Tech Forum for venture capitalists. Potentia, which manufactures an environmental energy powered battery, was the runner-up in the center's 2008 Michigan Business Challenge. While still in the R&D phase, Potentia has already been in talks with potential investors. "I would say that without getting the business background, it would ... Source: clipmarks.com --- 34 days ago
clipped by: Brian Caulfield clipper's remarks: Katie Fehrenbacher combed through campaign finance databases to discover that green Tech's backers are funding Obama, big time. It's no shock that many of Clean Tech's high-rollers favor Obama. What is a surprise, however, is that they're giving him six times the money they're spending on McCain. Clip Source: earth2tech.com We ran through the donation database the names of over a hundred investors that have led the funding of at least one cleantech company and came up with 25 names that have also contributed money to either the Obama or McCain campaigns. The individual contributions themselves were small (the max is $2,300 for the primary and general election), but the discrepancy was huge — $55,500 to Obama and $8,900 to McCain. (See our chart below the jump). That’s more than 6 to 1 for Obama, and a lot higher than the national split; as of June 30 of this year, Obama had raised $339.22 million and McCain had raised just $145.47 million. ... Source: www.zdnetasia.com --- 31 days ago
Clean-Tech investing shoots up in the second quarter, boosted by high energy prices, environmental concerns, and growing corporate activity in the Clean-Tech sector. ... Find more results for Clean Tech on RSSMicro.com |
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James Murray, BusinessGreen , Tuesday 12 August 2008 at 10:30:00 Investment giant launches new green energy division Private equity and investment advisory giant Blackstone Group has become the investment firm to launch a dedicated Clean Tech division as it seeks to tap into the booming renewable energy... ...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph Biden , who will hit the campaign trail as presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama 's running mate this weekend, introduced a bill before August recess designed to create an International Clean Technology Deployment Fund. The fund would be help developing countries tackle climate change and promote the global deployment of U.S. Clean energy technology. “The developing world’s demand for energy and cheap fossil fuels will continue to rise,” Biden said in a press release. "Our choice is simple – we can ignore the energy needs of developing countries as they grow, or we can join together to help them put in place an infrastructure that promotes cleaner energy and a cleaner economy.” Foreign Relations ranking member Richard Lugar and Sens. Robert Menendez , D-N.J., and Chuck Hagel , R-Neb., cosponsored the bill. Energy demand worldwide will increase by 55 percent by 2030 and nearly 80 percent of the surge will stem from developing countries, the International Energy Agency has reported. Earlier this year, President Bush ’s budget called for funding to support U.S. participation in a Clean technology fund to be housed at the World Bank. Read Biden's July 16 press release here . ...