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Small Nuclear Dow? Wall Street primer on SMR financing by Tamar Cerafici

October 28, 2010 by Joseph Koblich
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By Tamar Cerafici Infocast held a gabfest for small nuclear proponents last week, promising an opportunity for small modular reactor (SMR) vendors and suppliers to understand how the future of their industry would be shaped by banks and venture capital firms. It’s high time that the SMR bandwagon includes the financiers who’ll really... [read more]

China setting the world’s oil price ?

January 25, 2010 by Big Gav
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The FT has a post pointing to a Goldman Sachs report on the oil market, noting the drop in US demand has been entirely offset by a rise in Chinese demand - China, setting the world’s oil prices . They also point to a report from the IEA, pointing out that some Saudi Aramco grades are no longer available to European customers, "in... [read more]

The Electric Car Revolution Will Soon Take to the Streets

January 24, 2010 by Big Gav
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Yale Environment 360 has a look at the unfolding transition to electric vehicles - The Electric Car Revolution Will Soon Take to the Streets. Electric cars are a green movement that is finally moving. Shunted to the side as the public indulged its love affair with gas-guzzling SUVs and four-wheel-drive trucks, history has finally caught... [read more]

Goldman Calling For US$100 Oil By 2011

January 20, 2010 by Big Gav
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The Daily Reckoning reports that Goldman Sachs is calling for the oil price to return to the US$100 per barrel mark - Goldman Calling For US$100 Oil By 2011. When Goldman Sachs makes a prediction about the price of an asset, you can never be sure if it's a self-fulfilling prophecy or a psychological investment operation exercised by an... [read more]

COP15: CEOs in Hamlet’s Castle

December 12, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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As humans, we’re wired to focus on the now. I want a new gadget now. I want a slab of pie now. I’m busy now, so I don’t have time for politics. The consequences—consumer debt, a sagging waistline, a Congress beholden to special interests–all arrive later. You can think about global warming as a now-and-later problem. Governments need to... [read more]

FPL: America’s No. 1 wind power

September 21, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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When the wind blows hard in Florida, people take cover. But the wind doesn’t blow hard enough often enough to support wind farms. “There’s not a wind farm within a thousand miles of our office,” says Mike O’Sullivan, senior vice president of NextEra Energy Resources, an independent power producer that is part of the FPL Group, which is... [read more]

Goldman Sachs: Oil’s going to $85 by year end

June 4, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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Oil hit $67 a barrel yesterday, driven the perception the global economy may have hit bottom, among other factors: Much of oil’s rally this year has tracked stock market gains as investors look to equity markets for signs of economic recovery, while a weaker dollar can boost the appeal of oil and other commodities as a hedge against... [read more]

The solar biz is heating up

September 13, 2007 by Marc Gunther
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No doubt there’s a boom unfolding in the solar energy business.Here are some of the investors in solar: Google guys Sergei Brin and Larry Page, VC firms Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark Capital, ex-Ebay exec Jeff Skoll, VC Vinod Khosla, Goldman Sachs, Idealab’s Bill Gross, mutual fund families Wellington and Fidelity. They are buying into... [read more]