There’s energy in Silicon Valley: VCs jump on green energy investments

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There's energy in Silicon Valley: VCs jump on green energy investments

26:10 | Margot Gerritsen | Apr 27th, 2007 6:24pm |

Silicon Valley is buzzing, but not just because of software and hardware investments. The new boom is in green energy technologies. James Horn is an investment manager for Noventi, one of the many Venture Capitalist firms excited about the energy field. The boom is fantastic news for new energy technology developments: The level of investments by the VCs will provide the financial support that we need to engineer the technologies of the future.

Tags: Silicon Valley, green energy, James Horn, Noventi, Venture Capitalist

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RealCurrents :: A Little Perspective on Global Warming and Other Forms of Scientific Pessimism :: September :: 2007:
September 24th, 2007 at 9:23 am

[…] Like it or not, the U.S. is still a (if not the) major innovation engine in the world. Companies in Silicon Valley (1, 2, 3) and elsewhere in the U.S. are working on hundreds of different technologies, everything from emission controls to cheap solar to electric cars to wind power and so on. Here in Texas, it’s become common to see the giant parts of wind turbines rolling down the highway on their way west, where hundreds are being put up. […]