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Bob Ford, CEO of Solaicx, makes awesome wafers and could be an awesome figure skater. Or so I found out in this interview.
Jon Bonnano has figured out stealing underpants and making profit, but he’s missing that crucial second step.
If there’s one thing the California Air Resources Board [...]
The Solexel saga continues to unfold. A LinkedIn profile sent to me by an informed observer shows that Wei Sun, Solexel’s Process Development Engineer, has been very busy over the last few years developing “large, composite depletion regions constructed using porous silicon.”
The magic is inside.
According to Wei Sun’s University of Rochester technologies page,
Yesterday Eric Wesoff reported that Solexel, a stealth, Kleiner Perkins-backed company was hiring for epitaxial silicon and MEMS engineers. MEMS, or micro-electro-mechanical systems, is a microfabrication technology used to integrate mechanical features and microelectronics on a silicon surface. Interesting, right?
After reporting this, (almost) all mentions of Solexel were removed from John Denniston’s page on the [...]
A press release put out last week by consultancy Frost & Sullivan points to the “Global Solar Photovoltaic Market” hitting $6.49 billion in revenues in 2005, with revenue projections of $16 billion in 2012. It’s so important they had to capitalize it, but clearly not important enough for F&S to really know what they’re talking [...]
“I would be behind a clean coal powered testicle electrocution, if that would be possible.”
I hear this is how Graham Hill motivates his minions.
Greentech VC numbers are in for 2007. Global figures jumped 43 percent from 2006 to $3 billion. The U.S. made up $2.5 billion of that, bouncing nearly 80 percent from 2006. Deal volume in the U.S. was up 54 percent, accounting for 8 percent of all U.S. VC money. Once again, the Bay State’s booming [...]
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Buildings are the George Harrison of green tech. Usually, it's the first two guys--solar and biofuels--that come to mind when the green tech gets debated. ...
Tesla Motors chairman Elon Musk is serious about getting beyond sports cars. At a press conference with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tesla co-founder and chairman Elon ...
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