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- Lowering costs with clean tech
- Scott Elrod, VP of the hardware systems lab at PARC, says that lowering costs is key in clean tech. By looking at their ink jet technology and applying it to solar cells, the company was able to come up with a lower price per watt—making solar an even more cost-effective...
- Tags: Inkjet Printer, Clean Technology, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- PARC VP: Lowering costs with clean tech
- Scott Elrod, VP of the hardware systems lab at PARC, says that lowering costs is key in clean tech. By looking at their ink jet technology and applying it to solar cells, the company was able to come up with a lower price per watt—making solar an even more cost-effective...
- Tags: Inkjet Printer, VP, Xerox PARC, Clean Technology, clean tech, solar, PARC
- Videos 2008-12-02
- San Jose mayor announces 'green' award recipients
- At a press conference in San Jose, Calif., Mayor Chuck Reed announces the winners of the inaugural Green Vision Innovation awards. The awards are designed to motivate companies to set up clean-tech businesses in the city of San Jose, bringing new green jobs with them.
- Tags: San Jose, Clean Technology, Green, Jobs
- Videos 2008-11-11
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand
- No matter their political affiliation, most people who have an opinion about what President-elect Barack Obama should do first after he's sworn into office point to the country's economic identity crisis as his first order of business. And given how much the latest jobs report rattled the...
- Tags: Job, Clean Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- Clean Tech Open entrepreneurs win big
- In a relatively inhospitable economy for tech start-ups, the Clean Tech Open and its six $100,000 cash prizes are like oases in the desert. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports from the 2008 awards show in San Francisco which celebrated the best clean and green technology companies struggling to stay afloat.
- Tags: Clean Technology, News, kara tsuboi, clean tech, green solar, led, eco friendly, environment
- Videos 2008-11-07
- Another bit of positive green investment news. Smart grid is again the focus.
- More positive news on the clean-tech investment front announced before the market meltdown but significant nonetheless: Another smart-grid player, GridPoint, is using at least some of its $120 million in recently raised equity financing to buy V2Green, which sells technology for integrating infrastructure for supporting plug-in electric hybrids with the...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Grid, Clean Technology, Hybrid, GridPoint, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Video: Vinod Khosla: 'It's about main tech, not clean tech'
- Video: Vinod Khosla: 'It's about main tech, not clean tech'The weapon of choice on the war on coalKhosla accurately points out coal is base load power, and the replacement of coal is not simple. Coal represents about 60% of U.S. power generation, all of it base load.Nuclear is the...
- Tags: Corporate communications, video, Vinod Khosla, coal, clean technology
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- Video: Green tech grabbing VC greenbacks
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Ira Ehrenpreis of Technology Partners discusses the current market landscape for clean-tech investing. He says clean tech used to get 1 percent of all venture dollars and that today, it is attracting between roughly 10 percent and 14 percent of all venture...
- Tags: Green Technology, Video, Clean Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Green tech grabbing VC greenbacks
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Ira Ehrenpreis of Technology Partners discusses the current market landscape for clean-tech investing. He says clean tech used to get 1 percent of all venture dollars and that today, it is attracting between roughly 10 percent and 14 percent of all venture...
- Tags: Green Technology, Clean Technology, Green
- Videos 2008-09-17
- Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric car
- San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed has convinced green car maker Tesla Motors to build a proposed $250 million facility in north San Jose, adding approximately 1,000 clean-tech jobs to his community by 2010. The deal will be disclosed today during a press conference in California. The first...
- Tags: Car, San Jose, Clean Technology, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, Clean-tech Job, Mayor Reed, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Video: Vinod Khosla: 'It's about main tech, not clean tech'
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures offers his views on environmental challenges facing the world and how clean tech needs to deliver real results. He also criticizes the current green movement as more about style than substance. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Video, Clean Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Vinod Khosla: 'It's about main tech, not clean tech'
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures offers his views on environmental challenges facing the world and how clean tech needs to deliver real results. He also criticizes the current green movement as more about style than substance.
- Tags: Clean Technology, Green
- Videos 2008-09-17
- What's hot, what's not, in energy land
- What's hot? Wind says the MSM and all the ads being sponsored by former oilman T. Boone Pickens. Pickens is going to get lots of play because he can spend lots of money. You may have seen some of his ads. Pickens...
- Tags: U.S., Clean Technology, Natural Gas, Pickens, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Clean-tech gets political while China moves into first place
- Clean-tech gets political while China moves into first placeYou should add that there are about 5 times more Chinese, so, they arestill using 5x less per capita. I do agree that the rapid increases in use in China is troubling . . . . .
- Tags: China Move, clean technology
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Clean-tech gets political while China moves into first place
- 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...
- Tags: China, Medal, Clean Technology, Montana, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- When will cleantech be profitable? How about Q2, 2008!
- The world's first solar power billionaire is on a role. Not in Silicon Valley or Spain or even solar-blessed Arizona. In China. The global gold medal winner in solar profits: Shi Zhengrong, head of Suntech Power. They make photovoltaics sold the world over. Free...
- Tags: China, Spain, Stock, Photovoltaics, Clean Technology, Suntech Power, Zhengrong, Manufacturing, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?
- I'm old enough to remember the many apocalyptic scenarios conjured up by nuclear weapons and the Cold War. From Alas, Babylon to "The Day After", from Godzilla himself, the second half of the Twentieth Century was repeatedly haunted by vivid imaginings of the post-nuclear world, or its ending....
- Tags: Bee, Clean Technology, NRDC, Purdue, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- The cleantech bubble--true or false?
- There is a serious cleantech investment bubble in the making. That's the view of an opinionator on our sister site, CNET. Steve Tobak warns, they're blowing smoke, and smoke gets in your eyes. A counter view--from an involved cleantech VC--is that there is much more to be done,...
- Tags: clean technology, steve tobak, harry fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- The electric car is here, and your neighbor may be driving it already
- ZAP truck courtesy of ZAP. American consumers are bypassing Big Oil and Big Auto, they are going directly to the electric car. They are not waiting for fancy new start=ups to come out with traditional looking cleantech vehicles. How is this happening? By buying golf carts....
- Tags: car, vehicle, zap, clean technology, american consumer, sales strategy, sales, harry fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Are lower oil prices the death knell for cleantech energy?
- Are lower oil prices the death knell for cleantech energy?Yes!... well you asked!
- Tags: cleantech energy, clean technology
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
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