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Notes From Bill Joy's Decarbonization Lecture

May 6, 2011 by Alex Trembath
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I recently had the pleasure of attending* a special reception and Regents Lecture by Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, founding partner at venture firm KPCB, and Berkeley alum. At Kleiner Perkins, Joy is in charge of greentech investment, and his talk focused mostly on the technological challenges and opportunities of... [read more]

April Top Ten Players In Green Energy

May 6, 2010 by Terrence Murray
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1: Cape Wind The 420-megawatt Cape Wind project  is big, but the expectations for it are even bigger. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who just last week announced approval for the project amidst some stiff opposition, expects the Nantucket Sound wind farm to do no less than prove the viability of offshore wind in... [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]