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How the Economy Is Changing Clean Energy
Al writes "The economy has hit green energy technologies hard, but technologies focused on energy efficiency and clean coal are still attracting money. Over the next few years, venture capitalists say that the biggest winners in clean tech will most likely be companies with technologies that improve efficiency. Such ventures often take advantage of cheap sensors, communications hardware, and software packages to monitor and control energy use both in buildings and on the electricity grid. High-capital businesses are now more likely to succeed if they can attract foreign funding. For instance, Great Point Energy, based in Cambridge, which has developed a process for converting coal into natural gas, has attracted $100m in funding from China."
I am sorry but the current marketing program by the "big oil" companies that CH4 is better than C8H18 (octane) or deisel (N-decane and above) are a strong point for dispute!
They are not solving the problem that oxidized carbon (CO2) will be deliverered into the atomosphere and thus contribute to global warming. And they have no plans for dealing with this. No plans for the consequences of global sea level rises, no plans for sequestering the oxidized carbon, etc. In plain sight they are proposing and promoting the destruction of the planet as we currently know it. Is that what we should have as "corporate America"?
Robert