Comments on: Why VC Infatuation with Cleantech Will Hurt Silicon Valley http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/28/why-vc-infatuation-with-cleantech-will-hurt-silicon-valley/ Keeping Tech Sexy Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:05:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brooklyn Bridge for Sale: Kleiner Perkins Green Growth Fund Open to New Investors : The Drama 2.0 Show http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/28/why-vc-infatuation-with-cleantech-will-hurt-silicon-valley/comment-page-1/#comment-62113 Brooklyn Bridge for Sale: Kleiner Perkins Green Growth Fund Open to New Investors : The Drama 2.0 Show Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:43:50 +0000 http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/28/why-vc-infatuation-with-cleantech-will-hurt-silicon-valley/#comment-62113 [...] know some of you are probably skeptical. Cynics say that the economics of “greentech” simply don’t make any sense and in the absence [...] [...] know some of you are probably skeptical. Cynics say that the economics of “greentech” simply don’t make any sense and in the absence [...]

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]]> By: WalterRSmith http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/28/why-vc-infatuation-with-cleantech-will-hurt-silicon-valley/comment-page-1/#comment-39847 WalterRSmith Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:33:02 +0000 http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/28/why-vc-infatuation-with-cleantech-will-hurt-silicon-valley/#comment-39847 As someone who's followed the politics and economics of large scale power production for over 30 years, I've ceased being surprised by the "popular delusions and madness of crowds" that seems to characterize the energy field. Perhaps the most concise description I've seen of basic and inviolable physical constraints is by Dr. Nate Lewis of Caltech at a Johns Hopkins APL Seminar: See the first third of his Nov 16 2007 archived presentation at http://www.jhuapl.edu/POW/rethinking08/video.cfm As someone who’s followed the politics and economics of large scale power production for over 30 years, I’ve ceased being surprised by the “popular delusions and madness of crowds” that seems to characterize the energy field.

Perhaps the most concise description I’ve seen of basic and inviolable physical constraints is by Dr. Nate Lewis of Caltech at a Johns Hopkins APL Seminar:

See the first third of his Nov 16 2007 archived presentation at http://www.jhuapl.edu/POW/rethinking08/video.cfm

]]> By: Drama 2.0 http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/28/why-vc-infatuation-with-cleantech-will-hurt-silicon-valley/comment-page-1/#comment-39243 Drama 2.0 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:20:36 +0000 http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/28/why-vc-infatuation-with-cleantech-will-hurt-silicon-valley/#comment-39243 k: I can see T. Boone (who is far smarter at tricking government into helping his interests than khaki-wearning VCs) telling John Doerr: "I drink your milkshake!" k: I can see T. Boone (who is far smarter at tricking government into helping his interests than khaki-wearning VCs) telling John Doerr: “I drink your milkshake!”

]]> By: k http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/28/why-vc-infatuation-with-cleantech-will-hurt-silicon-valley/comment-page-1/#comment-39217 k Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:28:55 +0000 http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/28/why-vc-infatuation-with-cleantech-will-hurt-silicon-valley/#comment-39217 It's going to be great when VC funds spend a ton of cash lobbying for "cleantech" and some dirty behemoth from Houston sweeps up all the rewards. It’s going to be great when VC funds spend a ton of cash lobbying for “cleantech” and some dirty behemoth from Houston sweeps up all the rewards.

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