Green Venture Fund Raises $1 Billion

Mother Nature Network:

A well-known Silicon Valley investor with a penchant for green technology companies has raised more than $1 billion for two new venture funds.

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[John Mainstream]

Over the past 30 years, plasma furnaces have demonstrated solutions for clean coal, for safely disposing of medical waste, and for generating clean energy from municipal garbage dumps. The first full-scale plasma furnace retrofit for an existing coal plant is currently underway in Massachusetts.

[John Mainstream]

President Obama should use TARP authority to provide government loan guarantees for banks to lend $15 Billion per year for wind farm deployment. Wind farms are cost competitive over time with coal, natural gas, nuclear, and petroleum for electricity generation. For an investment of $300
Billion over the next 20 years, wind farms could provide enough electricity for every American households. Wind provides a comparatively low-risk, steady, return on investment. And, building these wind farms would create 1.5 million jobs.

[lizardbrain]

This is precisely how America will rise out of the ashes of it's fossil fuel addiction. Kudos to the risk takers! http://www.dasolar.com/alternative-energy

[BannedNBoston]

Lobby to legalize hemp;
make ethanol from hemp fiber;

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Researchers at Lebanon, N.H.-based Mascoma Corp. recently announced that they ... bacterium Clostridium thermocellum to produce nearly 60 percent more ethanol ...
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[robbor]

Excellent, Mr. Khosla, bypass Wall Street at all costs. Business cannot live on money alone; there needs to be curiosity and imagination in the mix to produce soulful results and that's where Mr. Khosla enters the picture. The future of capitalism is here.