Raising Capital for Clean Energy Start-ups
I’m doing a radio talk show in a few minutes, on which I’ll be discussing raising money for clean energy ventures. I’ll post a link to the archive when it’s available shortly.
Shows like this pose an interesting dilemma: I don’t want to come off as a bearer of bad news, but raising seed capital for start-ups is always tough, and doing so for new ideas that compete with cheap natural gas can be a real beast. On top of that, most of the ideas floating around this space are not nearly as good as their creators believe them to be.
Having said all this, there really are some good ideas out there, and I want to provide help and encouragement to move them along. Always an interesting challenge.
Chairman and former CEO of the Nestlé Group, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, described “declaring water a public right” as an “opinion” and “an extreme solution” that “NGO’s” fostered. He stated that he believes the “better” “opinion” is that “water is a foodstuff like any other” and “should have a market value.” Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is also on the board of ExxonMobil.
If I’m guilty of under-representing any of the big ideas in energy, it’s probably my failure to make my position clear on fracking that has been my greatest journalistic sin of late. Here at 2GreenEnergy.com we’re gaining on 3000 blog posts, most of them mine, and I don’t think I have more than half a dozen articles on the subject. 
I took a nice jog on the beach this morning, and, to my delight, ran past a whole bus-load of school kids studying the critters that live in the tide pools. I’m reminded of something 
I promised the people of GE Power & Water that I’d let you know about a live webcast taking place tomorrow June 6th from 11-12:15 pm ET around big data as an opportunity and ensuring operations are running efficiently and that sustainability is top of mind.
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Today is the 117th anniversary of Henry Ford’s first successful test drive of the automobile; his four-horsepower, 500-pound frame called the “quadricycle” (pictured here) ran on pure ethanol. Electric vehicles came along shortly thereafter as well, and enjoyed impressive market share, due largely to the fact that they did not require the driver to start the car with a hand-crank, which was physically difficult and often quite dangerous. This advantage disappeared in the 1920s with the invention of the electric starter, and so did electric vehicles. 
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