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  Business Opportunity: CFL recycling?

  01.24.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Business Opportunity: CFL recycling?

  Have you ever wondered what to do with those energy efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs when they burn out? One shouldn’t just toss them into the garbage due to the small amount of mercury (~5mg) in each bulb yet it’s not really apparent what to do with them. Presently, there are a number of pilot […]

• Business, Energy

  Raser raises cash

  01.18.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Raser raises cash

  Raser Technologies announced significant funding earlier this week from Merrill Lynch for their first 10.5MW power plant in Nevada due to come online in Q3 2008. The funding vehicle is what’s known in the business as a “flip” parternship, where an independent corporate entity (often a LLC) is formed with the funding partner so certain […]

• Business, Technology & Science

  Shopping Spree

  01.16.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Shopping Spree

  Well, the week is only 2 days old and there are deals aplenty, VMWare announced another acquisition yesterday (of Thinstall) and this morning, BEA has finally given in to be assimilated by the borg in Redwood Shores, Oracle for $8.5B. Finally, Sun Microsystems has finally made good on its threat to enter the database market […]

• Business, Innovation

  Use the net to recover your pet

  01.09.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Click Image to Enroll A good friend of mine, Connie Weiss, launched her latest enterprise yesterday, My Pet Street. MPS is a community for pet owners with tons of useful information, some social networking/rating features, and a fantastic service that every dog/cat owner should use, PetAlertz. It’s pretty simple, when you agree to participate in […]

• Business, Energy

  Raft River Unit One Complete

  01.02.08 | Permalink | Comments Off on Raft River Unit One Complete

  Last week US Geothermal announced that the construction phase of the 13MW Raft River One Unit is now completed. After a little more testing, the facility will enter production (although the test power is being sold presently according to the company.) Congratulations to US Geothermal on making the leap from developer to operator. Raft River […]

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