Although this is undoubtedly a breakthrough for clean energy tech, it's by no means a near-future reality.
This last point appears heretical considering the tide of popular media and policy nostrums about energy tech.
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Mills, a physicist and a co-founding partner in Digital Power Capital, an energy tech venture fund.
While anecdotes abound here as well, systematic evaluations of federal programs find no evidence that 60 years of federal energy tech spending have produced more benefits than costs.
By going a little further down the energy tech value chain and viewing the nascent LED industry through this familiar lens, they can walk in and let the lights come on.
The existing set of technology companies have taken us part of the way there, but bridging that gap will require energy tech companies that take these exciting new technologies from the lab to the living room.
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The last time we heard from Steorn, the company had just joined a long line of optimistic but doomed people and companies unable to actually demo free-energy tech when put the test -- and although the Orbo didn't actually do anything, CEO Sean McCarthy promised us that we'd eventually get a working demo with physical access to the device.
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Investors looking for individual stocks should consider health care, energy and tech stocks with above-average dividend yields, says Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott.
Allen has been selling off shares of the software maker he started with Bill Gates and investing in a more diversified basket of media, energy and tech stocks.
It was also a hot week for energy-generating tech as Intel unveiled a solar laptop chipset that can be powered by a desk lamp and MIT developed a tiny kinetic generator that can produce 100 times more power than previous devices of its kind.
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Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Paul Allen continues to score big in real estate, tech and energy.
They favor tech and energy companies and also like health care and manufacturing.
This year, Fisher has underweighted U.S. stocks and over-weighted sectors such as tech and energy, compared with the MSCI.
The amount of energy that the big tech companies are expending to document and defend software patents makes no sense.
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For 2008 Fisher has underweighted U.S. stocks and overweighted, compared with the MSCI, sectors such as materials, industrials, cyclical tech and energy.
The boutique merchant banking firm specializes in cross-border transactions with a focus on assisting clean tech and energy-related companies expand into China and raise capital.
Tech and energy stocks have lagged this year, but investors have recently been dipping their toes into the sectors, seen as closely tied to global economic growth.
The beauty of Kam's approach is that when a sector shift occurs--from tech to energy, say--Kam can consult his 70, 000-member database of investors for the new top 100.
The fellows came from Israel, India and the U.S. (text-to-video service Wibbitz, wireless energy savings device Wifinity Tech and lifestyle brand Holstee, to name a few).
We have to make sure that in every sector, from manufacturing to clean energy to high-tech to biotech, that we recognize the private sector is going to be the driving force.
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Or that Steve Cohen and Jim Simons, who flirted with the yellow metal, decided to bet on insurers and tech firms, while David Tepper and Carl Icahn placed their newest bets in tech and energy.
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This assumes flattish tech earnings and energy's numbers cut in half.
As work sponsored by the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research Program has shown quite well, boosting energy efficiency in high-tech industries offers huge economic side benefits in terms of increased reliability and productivity.
Personally, I just think that solar makes the most sense as an energy technology, and the tech innovations in solar power are such that I expect it to be the most common source of power before the century is out.
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And I was just talking to President Love about the focus of Savannah Tech on clean energy, the idea that this can be a real model for green energy as a way of linking students to the enormous job opportunities and business opportunities that exist in the future.
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Lately, some 60% of deals have been in three areas: energy, finance and high-tech.
Clients had grown skittish as the tech bubble popped and energy prices soared.
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