Not much word from Krugs about the economic turnaround he said wasn't coming; that said it might be over tomorrow for all I know...
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:29 AM, dick thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | 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 | > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > [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/ > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
