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  • February 1st, 2011

    Alphabet Energy's Waste-Heat Recovery Tech Is Out Of The Lab, Pilot Projects Underway

    A company that makes systems to turn waste-heat into electricity Alphabet Energy has officially moved its technology out of the lab and into pilot production, the company announced today.

    The company recently hired manufacturing technology veteran, Sylvain Muckenhirn, as their vice president of manufacturing. He will lead Alphabet Energy’s effort to begin fabless, volume manufacturing of its… → Read More

    November 24th, 2010

    Did America Lose its Cleantech Mojo, or Did Brazil, Germany and China Just Get More? (TCTV)

    Nat Goldhaber of Claremont Creek Ventures thinks that 2011 will be the year of the cleantech IPO…finally. So does that mean that America hasn’t totally lost the cleantech race after all?

    The mostĀ optimisticĀ case is that we’re in a clump of countries leading the pack. The glass-half-empty version: Politics, boneheaded legislation and our lousy capital markets will saddle America’s culture of… → Read More

    November 24th, 2010

    Will 2011 Finally Be the Year of the Cleantech IPO? (TCTV)

    In retrospect, Tesla may have been cleantech’s Netscape moment. It didn’t get off to the world’s greatest start, but like a few other venture-backed IPOs, lately it has been trading at nearly double its opening price.

    Meanwhile, a few other cleantech companies have filed S-1s and several more are waiting in the wings, watching to see what the market does. To continue the Netscape analogy, 2011… → Read More