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Top 10 Reasons Israel is a Cleantech Leader, from Cleantech Group

April 23, 2010 by Scott Edward Anderson
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Here at thegreenskeptic.com we've been following the progress of cleantech in Israel for some time. There are many reasons Israel has been an innovator, including, in part, because it has to be. Now, Sustainable World Capital's Shawn Lesser highlights the history of innovation, access to capital, scarce resources and other factors... [read more]

Israel seeks commercial reactor from France

March 9, 2010 by Dan Yurman
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Start-Up Of first commercial nuclear plant by 2025 (NucNet) Israel is proposing that its first commercial nuclear power plant  start operations within the next 10 to 15 years, the country’s infrastructure minister told NucNet March 5th. Uzi Landau, Israsel’s Infrastructure Minister, (right) who addressed the International... [read more]

Climate Change and Clean Tech in Israel

January 12, 2010 by David Levy
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Israel is a small country of 7.5 million people with an oversized political and media footprint. It also has a growing carbon footprint problem on its current development path, as noted in the November 2009 McKinsey report on Greenhouse Gas Reduction Potential in Israel (the 5-page summary is in English, click here for full Hebrew... [read more]

Price signals and free markets lead to oil exploration: who’d a thunk it?

September 24, 2009 by Lynne Kiesling
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From a good article in today’s New York Times: 2009 is turning out to be a bumper year for new oil discoveries; new oil discoveries always occur, but this year has been unusually fruitful. This quote from the article illustrates the important dynamic intertemporal incentives that price signals provide: These discoveries, spanning five... [read more]

Israeli Companies Pitch at US-Israel Cleantech Conference

September 15, 2009 by Scott Edward Anderson
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More than a dozen Israeli companies pitched at today's US-Israel Cleantech Conference at the University of Pennsylvania. The companies promoting their renewable energy and other green technologies were joined by business leaders, investors, and government agency representative from Greater Philadelphia who shared keys to business... [read more]

$45 Trill, eh? I’m thinking, I’m thinking….

June 9, 2008 by Jonathan Smith
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Subtitle: You worked for the government, eh, Joseph? One of the posts at After Gutenberg, to which I most recently have added the greatest amount of commentary, has been the announcement that Carlos Ghosn was in bed with Shai Agassi. Metaphorically and politically speaking, that is (Video). “Recent fault-finding flak comes from Karin... [read more]

Synthesizing Transformation

January 22, 2008 by ShaiAgassi
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On January 21st 2008 we set the first step towards getting an entire country off its addiction to gasoline. Why is the Israeli announcement so meaningful? Almost a year in the making, and three years in thinking, the transformative power of yesterday’s announcement is not immediately obvious to people. Sure, most people feel in their... [read more]

General Press Observation

November 12, 2007 by ShaiAgassi
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There has been a tremendous amount of press about Project Better Place over the last few days. In particular in Israel these last few weeks the voices for and against the project have been sounding off their opinions. I will set a list tomorrow so that people can follow the arguments, but I chose to put one piece which is not very... [read more]