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A trillion here, a trillion there
Another day, another trillion dollars for the clean-tech industry |
Mark Pawlosky |
19 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| It seems that a day doesn't slip by without someone raising the stakes in the alternative-energy poker game. The most recent bombshell wager: Cambridge Energy Research Associates report that alternative energy investments will -- hold on to your hats! -- top $7 trillion by 2030. That's an audacious number by any measure, and normally it would be enough to suck the oxygen right out of a convention of wind-farm enthusiasts. But that's not the half of it. The most sta ... |
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| Topics: tech, business, economy, renewable energy, energy, investing (all these topics) |
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Whither the alternative energy market?
Q&A with Eric Janszen on whether an alt-energy bubble is in the making |
Mark Pawlosky |
01 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Eric Janszen Eric Janszen, the founder and president of iTulip.com, recently argued in Harper's Magazine that the alternative energy segment is a prime candidate for a massive asset bubble, potentially dwarfing both the dot-com and housing bubbles. I wrote about Janszen's prediction last week. This week, Janszen joins us for a question-and-answer follow-up.Grist: You make a convincing argument that a financial bubble in the alternative energy industry ... |
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| Topics: economy, business, tech, renewable energy, interview, energy, investing (all these topics) |
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Bubbling up ...
Could alternative energy companies drive the next big market bubble? |
Mark Pawlosky |
26 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In case you missed it, the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced a violent and exhausting 1,000-point swing the past week, down 450 points on Tuesday before trimming its losses and then tumbling 330 points on Wednesday before rebounding with a 299-point gain. It's not the only financial freefall of late. The housing market bubble was punctured last fall and has been leaking like the Hindenburg ever since. (And long before that, the economy experienced the ... |
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| Topics: energy, economy, business, tech, renewable energy, investing (all these topics) |
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Can the environmental economy dodge a recession?
As economic indicators trend downward, the clean-tech sector is still looking up |
Mark Pawlosky |
18 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| As one key economic engine after another -- housing, finance, autos, retail -- sputters and stalls out, the fledgling eco-economy is purring right along, fueled in no small part by venture capital firms hungry for new opportunities in industries that promise outsized returns on their investments. In the first three quarters of 2007, VCs poured $2.6 billion into alternative energy and clean-tech firms, more money than they invested for the whole of 2006. The new y ... |
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| Topics: business, economy, energy, investing, renewable energy, tech (all these topics) |
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