Perhaps Glori will be able to go public next year, and IPOs are a great way for venture investors to cash out of an investment, but Kleiner has enjoyed very few of them in its clean-tech portfolio.

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But for those of you who live in circular rooms with very clean floors, they might be worth a flier.

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It's an honor to be here on a very big day not just for Arcadia but for the cause of clean energy in America.

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But it is still very different from what is the Holy Grail of clean coal technology -- that is, a power plant that has no smokestacks because it produces no emissions.

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But he made it very clear that this is not going to be as clean cut as they would like it.

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That amplifier puts out some very clean sound when paired with non-powered speakers, but this is the kind of setup intended for audiophiles looking for a simple secondary system -- exactly the kind of listener who cringes at the thought of lossy, compressed streaming audio.

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But instead of coming clean, Koenig testified that Enron secretly transferred those losses into its very profitable wholesale division.

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The city you find yourself in is all clean lines and shadows, and visually very distinctive, in a pure but attractive kind of way.

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