All Posts Tagged With: "David Gold"
Millions of Green Jobs? Well … NO!
Searching Google for “millions of green jobs” yields over 380,000 references. Every week there’s a new report showing how, if the U.S. plays its public policy cards right, we’ll soon be producing most of our energy from “clean”, renewable wind and solar sources, driving around in electric cars that will deliver power back to the grid, and living in super-energy-efficient homes.
5Jan2012 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
A Cleantech Venture Who is Unconvinced of Man-Made Climate Change
Go ahead — call me a hypocrite. I claim to be a cleantech venture capitalist yet I tell you here and now that I am not convinced of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change (aka global warming). And I will audaciously tell you that my convictions on climate change in no way run contrary to my strong belief in the need for a cleantech revolution.
19Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Feeling Blue About Green? Reasons for Cleantech Optimism
With the first high profile cleantech company failures, the euphoria of the cleantech bubble has burst creating pessimism about the future of cleantech as a whole. I say, hogwash! History says we have many reasons to be optimistic. Just because things look bad today doesn’t mean the world is coming to an end! We humans have a hard time stepping back and getting a perspective on things that span long periods of time and it’s easy to get lost in the fear and distress of the day. But as a cleantech venture capitalist, I am almost required to be optimistic. How else could I make high-risk investments in early stage companies?
18Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Obama Cleantech Stimulus: Bad Policy, Bad Politics and Bad for Cleantech
The Solyndra debacle is no surprise to this cleantech venture capitalist. The inherent conflict between trying to get money out of the U.S. Treasury as quickly as possible to stimulate the economy and, at the same time, have government agencies that are ill-suited at making business decisions do just that was nothing other than a recipe for disaster.
27Oct2011 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Top 5 Things Cleantech Entrepreneurs Fail to Understand About Raising Venture Capital
Compared to traditional VC investment ecosystems, cleantech companies are much more likely to be led by first-time entrepreneurs who often struggle to create an ecosystem of experienced people around them.
Here’s what they need to understand.
If Energy Were Free and Unlimited …
In often-extraordinary ways, energy is interwoven into absolutely everything that we need to live or that we love to do. One of the most useful tricks I learned in engineering school is that to put any problem in perspective, it helps to ask what if things were at zero or infinity. So, to put things in perspective, let’s ask the question…
16May2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
You Call This “Cleantech”?
Invest in a solar, biofuels, or LED lighting company, and no one will question its cleantech pedigree. Invest in a manufacturer of network switch upgrades for telephone companies, then call it “cleantech” and you’ll see a lot of raised eyebrows. I know, because we did just that.
18Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Election Doesn’t Spell Cleantech Doom
It won’t be exactly what the president wants and it won’t be exactly what the Republicans want. It will be an old-fashion compromise that may actually result in some policies and that will have greater long-term impact on cleantech than most of the short-term handout programs that were put in place under the largely ineffective cleantech stimulus bill.
13Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
$91 Million in Stimulus Grants Go to Three Colorado Companies for Clean Coal Research
Boulder-based Eltron R&D is receiving the largest share of the DOE funds for work on advanced techniques to capture and store CO2 from fossil fuel combustion. The other two are ADA Environmental Solutions in Littleton and North American Power Group of Greenwood Village.
8Sep2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
The Gold Standard –
Government Grants Leading Cleantech Astray
While the government has long had a role in advancing basic R&D, the concept that the U.S. will jump-start, let alone build, a sustainable energy economy through government handouts for implementation of manufacturing plants, production facilities or enhanced utility grids is, quite simply, ludicrous.
19Jan2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
I hope they do get that extension. GO for it!
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Nice job Graham. It's important to note that what constitutes "green jobs" policy in the US is not the ...