Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The perennial question about cellulosic biofuels has been will they always be 5 years in the future. I've written about how there has been an explosion in private sector efforts to develop a wide range of technologies to convert biomass...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Cai Steger, our former summer business fellow extraordinaire, sent me an email recently positing a set of year and cleantech pairings. As he put it: It certainly seems as though the last few years, one specific technology has captured the...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Partly inspired by the chance to use "ping-pong" and "pop" in a title, and partly because I've already speculated cleantech investing as a whole could suffer if ethanol's fortunes fall too far too fast, I've been thinking about investment bubbles today. A...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Over the weekend there was a spat of articles about slumping ethanol prices and the end to boom days in the ethanol industry (WSJ subscription required). As the articles point out, the slump is caused by explosive growth in production capacity...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Solving Global Warming
Thanks to Vickie Patton over at Environmental Defense for this information. Yesterday Citigroup downgraded coal stocks "across the board" in no small part because the industry has failed to respond to the growing perception (realization, I would say) that coal companies...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Solving Global Warming
The Clinton Global Initiative is wrapping up here in NYC. This week's meetings saw the announcement of $4 billion in investments in biofuels and other energy technologies to cut global warming pollution. Yesterday, Sir Richard Branson said that he would...continued→
