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  First hanging chads, now an energy pig

  03.01.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Al Gore can’t win – even when he does win as evidenced by the 2000 US Presidential Election and now the Oscars, he seems to somehow lose in the court of public opinion. I’m no Al Gore lover, I thought he was the lesser of two evils in the 2000 election (I’m still steamed about […]

• Business, Energy

  KKR led consortium acquires TXU

  02.26.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  In what can only be described as a mega-deal, investment firm Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, & Co. are paying a 15% premium over market close, $69.25 per share, to take TXU Corp private. The $31.8 billion dollar deal is the largest ever to take a company private. Why do we care? Simple, as a consequence of […]

• Business, Energy

  More investment in clean tech

  02.23.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on More investment in clean tech

  CalPERS (the California Public Employee Retirement System) doubled down earlier this week adding $400M to the $200M already set aside for clean tech investments. This is encouraging news as it means a large investor seeking outsized returns is seeing something they like in the clean tech space as well as the simple fact that $400M […]

• Energy, Innovation

  Silicon-free Solar

  02.22.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Recently I ran across a reference to the Swiss company Flisom which is a 2005 spinoff of ETH Zurich (The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.) Traditional photovoltaic (PV) cells use monocrystalline silicon wafers to capture photons in sun light to excite electrons which are then directed to a conductor resulting in direct current. These PV […]

• Energy

  Geothermal Co-production with Petroleum?

  02.21.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Here’s something interesting you may not know: when harvesting oil, there is often “waste water” mixed in the substance coming out of the hole, frequently the water is under pressure and hot. While at the Stanford Geothermal Conference last month, Mark Milliken covered this information during his talk. Waste Water Discharge at Naval Petroleum Reserve […]

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