The round of venture funding took LightSail Energy a year to close, after the very public failure of solar energy giant Solyndra spooked investors in the energy sector.
In particular, Green candidates will highlight control of GM food and GM crops planted against local will, the failure of energy policy to get to grips with climate change, nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
While the process of discovery and invention always includes large doses of failure, energy policy is different than say, cell phones or VCRs, since more public money, time and effort are spent on them.
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Failure to adequately invest in energy, transportation, communications, and other infrastructure practically guarantees the failure of critical systems when they are placed under the stress of extreme events.
However popular, his failure to increase energy tariffs is now helping to cause energy shortages.
Mr. Emanuel noted, correctly, that the U.S. largely squandered the opportunity the oil shocks of the 1970s presented to make serious, long-term changes in its energy habits -- a failure that has returned to haunt the nation today.
In a dynamic world, a failure to act with energy and conviction in the present leaves the challenges to someone else.
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Ampal pointed to what it called the Egyptian energy firms' "longstanding failure to supply the gas quantities owed" under the deal between the parties.
"We didn't have a failure in the generation of energy, we had a problem in the transmission line, " Mr Lula said.
Fourth, support for clean energy is designed to correct a market failure.
Majority GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate -- and the Republican presidential campaign of Texas Gov. George W. Bush -- have repeatedly slammed the Clinton-Gore administration for what they say is a failure to create a national energy policy aimed at keeping per-gallon prices for gasoline relatively low.
Contrast dense energy with solar and wind, which have failure built-in.
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Regardless of the success or failure of these ambitious anti-nuclear energy agendas, the age of atomic power is anything but over.
The failure to sell stakes in large public energy and engineering concerns suggests that Mr Berlusconi thinks that privatisation means raising cash without losing control.
Despite those who interpret the failure of Solyndra as proof that renewable energy is not a viable sector, the cleantech space is still very much alive and growing.
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Energy department loans director Jonathan Silver said Solyndra's failure should not reflect on the loan programme as a whole.
Because no matter how great your idea, no matter how much enthusiasm and energy you put behind it, your chances of success or failure may depend on where you choose to set up and develop your new venture.
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Analysts expect that the failure of Solyndra could make it difficult for other clean energy ventures to tap into federal loans as a source of funds.
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Skocpol explains convincingly that one of the reasons for the failure of cap and trade legislation was that climate reformers focused their energy on Beltway lobbying rather than mobilizing support in local communities.
The amount of energy released from a well-motivated employee can make the difference between transformation success and failure.
One of the ironies of the power crisis is that, instead of profiting from increased prices, small generators that use renewable sources of energy such as the wind and the sun have been driven almost to collapse by the failure of the utilities to pay them.
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