Clean Tech Deal Flow

Business Week has a good summary and analysis of Obama’s stimulus plan.
http://www.businessweek.com/

And I’d like 12 classic cars in my garage in 11 years. Who knows if either will happen? But Germany has a plan, and it includes:
a large amount of funding for advanced battery development, investment in an electric car charging infrastructure, and tax credits for the adoption of electric cars and plug-in hybrids. Conceived [...]

In October, I noted the announcement of the new Chrysler Hybrid SUV models.  
According to the NY Times:
The hybrid S.U.V.’s became available at dealerships in early October. But on Oct. 23, Chrysler announced that at the end of the year it would close the Delaware plant where they are built. Production of the hybrid [...]

There are many good reasons to doubt the future of corn ethanol.   (Not necessarily ethanol, but corn ethanol.)
This Washington Post article puts it in perspective.
But because of how corn ethanol currently is made, only about 20 percent of each gallon is “new” energy. That is because it takes a lot of “old” fossil energy [...]

Adeo Ressi has made a presentation recently that argues that the traditional VC model is broken.   I might agree that it has issues, but I think calling it dead is very premature.   Over at TechCrunch much was made of the slide I copied above, from Ressi’s original presentation.  It does point out, correctly, that the [...]

Wave energy seems like it holds some promise for a renewable resource.  Essentially, it is concentrated wind energy, since waves are formed by wind across large areas of water.  Capturing it has it difficulties, marine environments are tough on moving parts, tough to maintain, and frequently create energy that must then be transported somewhere.    Searaser [...]

 ”We want to position Connecticut as the preferred location to grow clean tech jobs,” said Governor M. Jodi Rell, who announced the fund in November.”
 It seems to me that it will take a lot more than $9M to establish Connecticut “as the preferred location to grow clean tech jobs”.   Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool [...]

Solargy is announcing a 120M project in Africa.  They bill themselves as an alternative energy system integrator, but this system doesn’t seem any different than conventional incinerators.  At least, it’s not at all clear how it’s different.   Anyone know?   They claim to integrate solar and incineration, but is the solar actually used ot make the [...]