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  Clean tech investments increase 500%

  02.12.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Clean tech investments increase 500%

  Joint Venture of Silicon Valley publishes an annual report attempting to provide a holistic view of life and opportunity in the valley. To their credit, I’ve not seen a more complete view than what they’ve published – tip of the hat to Kevin for passing this along. The report for 2006 is available here. The […]

• Business, Innovation

  Carbon Prize: Talk about putting your money where your mouth is…

  02.09.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Richard Branson today announced a $25M prize for the first viable means of “scrubbing the atmosphere of billions of tons of carbon gases from the atmosphere.” It’s a big challenge, sort of the same spirit of the Ansari X Prize that gave $10M to the first non-government organization to reach space with manned flights twice […]

• Business, Energy

  Deep sea geothermal?

  02.08.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Deep sea geothermal?

  Ormat Technologies (ORA) was granted an 11,000 acre geothermal lease off the coast of Texas. This is significant in it represents the first such lease in Texas, home of petroleum. One has to wonder about the feasibility of tapping into such a resource in that area. By all indications it is a DEEP resource we’re […]

• Business, Commentary

  Lose $2M, gain your life

  02.07.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Lose $2M, gain your life

  Yesterday, I had the chance to meet with an experienced Silicon Valley investor (who’s name will remain confidential.) We had a chat about an opportunity in the green energy space that was very productive. But the part of the conversation that really struck me and stuck with me, was the investor’s personal story of survival […]

• Business, Media

  Too much to write…

  02.05.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Too much to write…

  As a result, this will be a short entry; I need to complete a business plan revision today. So, on to the Superbowl. I predicted a Bears win in a sloppy game. Well, we got the sloppy game. Did the opening kickoff return remind anyone else of the Debacle in the Desert? Sure did for […]

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