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| How the Economy Is Changing Clean Energy |
| from the clean-energy-with-dirty-money dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 14, @02:10 (Earth) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/14/0355252 |
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[0]Al writes "The economy has hit green energy technologies hard, but
[1]technologies focused on energy efficiency and clean coal are still
attracting money. Over the next few years, venture capitalists say that
the biggest winners in clean tech will most likely be companies with
technologies that improve efficiency. Such ventures often take advantage
of cheap sensors, communications hardware, and software packages to
monitor and control energy use both in buildings and on the electricity
grid. High-capital businesses are now more likely to succeed if they can
attract foreign funding. For instance, Great Point Energy, based in
Cambridge, which has [2]developed a process for converting coal into
natural gas, has attracted $100m in funding from China."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/03/14/0355252
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/business/22287/
2. http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/18119/
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