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Future of Clean Energy: 3 Take-Aways from BNEF Summit 2013
Last week was the BNEF Summit (Bloomberg New Energy Finance), the annual gathering of the clean energy faithful commandeered by Michael Liebreich. BNEF puts on a good show. Their analysts have a deep understanding of their particular focus area and...
Focus on Teams, Customers, and Taking CleanTech to Market: Mid-Atlantic Energy Forum
Dr. Cheryl Martin Addressing Mid-Atlantic Energy Tech Forum"We focus on teamwork," Cheryl Martin, Deputy Director of ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) in her keynote address to the Mid-Atlantic Energy Technology Forum last night...
Is Cleantech a Dirty Word?
"Is Cleantech a dirty word?"I was asked this question over lunch today -- it's something that comes up regularly, like some disagreeable food. Just a few months ago, when we began planning for our 5th annual Mid-Atlantic Cleantech Investment...
10 Myths About Keystone XL from Both Sides
As some 35,000 opponents to the Keystone Pipeline gathered in front of the White House yesterday trying to persuade President Obama to just say no to the pipeline, I reflected upon some of the myths about the pipeline that have been bandied about by...
Patience and Focus for Advanced Materials
"Could the humble sea urchin hold the key to carbon capture?" I get a lot of press releases and articles. Most of them I ignore: a revolutionary high energy green food or lifestyle product, which I don't cover on The Green Skeptic. But the other...
An Email from Santa Claus to Climate Skeptics
A few Christmases ago, I published this email from Santa, which arrived on the night before the night before Christmas. Readers had so much fun with it, it's become an annual tradition. Enjoy!Happy Holidays!Scott, aka The Green...
Our Climate War: FRONTLINE's "Climate of Doubt"
We're in the midst of an uncivil "Climate War" that pits Climate of Fear vs. Climate of Doubt. Last night I watched a program called "Climate of Doubt," FRONTLINE's hour-long take on the influences and influencers who have reshaped the...
A123 Runs Out of Juice
Out of juice.Not so long ago, I was long on A123 Systems. But over the course of 3 years, I went from long to wrong. I was enthusiastic about the company's products, its lineup of investors (GE, Qualcomm, Sequoia Capital), and its partnerships...
Cleantech Investors: Consider the Hype Cycle
I had an email exchange the other day with my friend John Moore of Acorn Energy, a long-time energy entrepreneur and investor who wrote to me, almost as an afterthought, "FWIW, I am seeing interest in cleantech crumble with the Indexes." "I'm...
Is the Sky Falling for Cleantech Investment?
As Henny Penny cried, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling." And to look at the latest report on quarterly cleantech venture investment released last week by Cleantech Group, one might think the same is true for this sector. "...
Baby You Can Drive My (Electric) Car
Electric vehicles have come a long way since the days for the botched EV-1 experiment of the 1990s. Fisker KarmaFormerly considered tin cans without much oomph or sex appeal, EVs took a back seat to the more trendy hybrids (Prius) and powerful SUVs...
Contrarian Investors Take Stage at Mid-Atlantic Cleantech Investment Forum
"Energy efficiency is the cleaner energy option that pays for itself," suggested Mark Fulton to the large crowd gathered for the Mid-Atlantic Cleantech Investment Forum last Thursday evening. "It applies already existing technologies...
