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	<description>Green Light is the traffic cop at the intersection of green technology, business and policy. We cover the highs and lows of the greentech market, providing news, commentary and analysis on the companies and personalities–-winners and losers alike-–driving its growth and evolution.</description>
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		<title>Idealab: Google&#8217;s Farm Team for Green Technology</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/23/idealab-googles-farm-team-for-green-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/23/idealab-googles-farm-team-for-green-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kanellos</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Academic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brightsource]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[eSolar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The connections between Idealab and Google continue to grow.
RechargeIT, the part of Google.org that concentrates on clean transporation technologies, announced today that it has invested in Aptera, a company making a three-wheeled car. That marks the second time that Google (or one of its charitable subsidiaries) has invested in a company touted by the incubator.
Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attention Solar Industry: Prod Congress With a Call Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/22/attention-solar-industry-prod-congress-with-a-call-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/22/attention-solar-industry-prod-congress-with-a-call-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kanellos</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Solar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tax Credits]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wind]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The renewable energy tax incentives will come up for a vote again soon in Washington, and a group of investors/activists will work the phones tomorrow to try to get a few key lawmakers to support incentives once again. And they want your help.
The organization, a Facebook group called Renew Solar and Wind Incentives Now, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GT Solar To Build Turnkey IPO</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/22/gt-solar-to-build-turnkey-ipo/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/22/gt-solar-to-build-turnkey-ipo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Englander</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Solar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Applied Materials]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GT Solar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ipo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oerlikon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spire]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/?p=395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a run on adult diapers as the equity analyst crowd gets ready for what may be the most anticipated solar IPO in recent memory. GT Solar, a New Hampshire-based manufacturer of production equipment for wafer and panel makers (they&#8217;re a manufacturer&#8217;s manufacturer), is set to debut on the NASDAQ sometime this week, more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Cleantech Open Event at Google, Pt. 1</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/22/california-cleantech-open-event-at-google-pt-1/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/22/california-cleantech-open-event-at-google-pt-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wesoff</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[VC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The California Clean Tech Open presented an event at Google last night – with a panel discussing &#8220;Renewable Technologies of the Future&#8221; and a showcase of Renewable Energy Alumni and current contestants in the CCTO competition.
The location was not the Google planetary headquarters but another campus in Mountain View, Calif., which I’m pretty sure was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Software Program Gets New Life With Energy Efficiency Craze</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/21/ancient-software-program-gets-new-life-with-energy-efficiency-craze/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/21/ancient-software-program-gets-new-life-with-energy-efficiency-craze/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kanellos</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[BigFix]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PCs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/?p=390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1997, BigFix started marketing a tool that helped users diagnose problems with their PC. Later, the company sold essentially the same piece of software to help desks to analyze trends in customer complaints. After that, BigFix sold it as a tool to let large corporate customers download patches.
And now, the company&#8217;s products are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Counting Companies Get Cash. Can You Believe It?</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/21/carbon-counting-companies-get-cash-can-you-believe-it/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/21/carbon-counting-companies-get-cash-can-you-believe-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kanellos</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Clean coal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[carbon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[carbon dioxide]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[exchanges]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LaRouche]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sequestration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s carbon week in clean technology.
CarbonFlow, a software company baking an application that can calculate carbon credits, has raised $2.9 million. Neal Dikeman, at Jane Capital Partners, founded the company with Karla Bell, a noted expert on emissions credits. Investors include Clean Pacific Ventures (which led the round), OVP Venture Partners and Meridian Energy Limited, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Computer That Runs on Two Watts, But Will It Sell?</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/20/its-a-computer-that-runs-on-two-watts-but-will-it-sell/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/20/its-a-computer-that-runs-on-two-watts-but-will-it-sell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kanellos</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Audrey]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CherryPal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Internet PCs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NetPCs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sony]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sun]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/?p=380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

Several companies&#8211;Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Sony, 3Com, OQO, Samsung&#8211;have tried to market simplified Internet computers as alternatives to PCs.
And to date, most of them have failed miserably. The public has just not bought into the vision.
CherryPal, the brainchild of longtime software exec Max Seybold, hopes to break the pattern, although it won&#8217;t be easy. The company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter From the President of Planktos</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/18/a-letter-from-the-president-of-planktos/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/18/a-letter-from-the-president-of-planktos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kanellos</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ocean Power]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Climos. sequestration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[planktos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/?p=388</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Planktos. No, it&#8217;s not where Aquaman was born. Planktos Science is a San Francisco-based company that wants to capture and sequester carbon dioxide in the ocean with iron filings and plankton. An earlier incarnation of the company was dissolved after disagreements among the management team. It also failed to  gather funds.
Russ George, however, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Solar Thermal at Intersolar</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/18/real-solar-thermal-at-intersolar/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/18/real-solar-thermal-at-intersolar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wesoff</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Efficiency]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Utilities]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/?p=383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I moderated a solar thermal panel at Intersolar on Wednesday with three major players in the rapidly emerging solar thermal market – Ausra&#8217;s Glen Davis, Acciona&#8217;s Gilbert Cohen and Josef Eichhamer of Solar Millennium.
All of the firms that were on the panel have major contracts to provide power, are building or have built numerous power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Building Gets Its Boost in California</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/18/green-building-gets-its-boost-in-california/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/18/green-building-gets-its-boost-in-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kanellos</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Output]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VC]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/?p=385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Buildings are the George Harrison of green tech. Usually, it&#8217;s the first two guys&#8211;solar and biofuels&#8211;that come to mind when the green tech gets debated. Buildings are typically in the &#8220;oh yeah, that too&#8221; category.
But entrepreneurs and VCs are gravitating toward the topic and for good reason. Buildings account for nearly half of greenhouse gas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-Paid Power Bills Coming to U.S.</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/17/pre-paid-power-bills-coming-to-us/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/17/pre-paid-power-bills-coming-to-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kanellos</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Efficiency]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tendril]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[zigbee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve seen pre-paid cell phones. Now get ready for pre-paid power bills.
A few utilities in the U.S. are looking at implementing pre-paid, or pay-as-you-go, power bills, according to Adrian Tuck, CEO of Tendril, a start-up specializing in household energy management. The concept is simple. You pay money to the utility at the beginning of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A glass for Boosting PV and Solar Thermal Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/17/a-glass-for-boosting-pv-and-solar-thermal-efficiency/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/17/a-glass-for-boosting-pv-and-solar-thermal-efficiency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kanellos</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Xerocoat wants to pull off the triple in the solar world: sell the same product to solar thermal, crystalline PV and thin film manufacturers.
The Redwood City-based company has come up with an anti-reflective, porous glass coating that can boost the efficiency of solar components by essentially preventing incoming solar energy from bouncing.
The material can increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intersolar Hallway Conversations and Rumors, Pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/16/intersolar-hallway-conversations-and-rumors-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/16/intersolar-hallway-conversations-and-rumors-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wesoff</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing where we left off yesterday, here&#8217;s more of the chatter coming out of this year&#8217;s Intersolar conference in San Francisco:

From the really big valuation department…Optisolar allegedly received a $132 million funding round last quarter at an $850 million pre-money valuation according to several anonymous VCs. Optisolar manufactures PV modules and builds large-scale solar farms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live @ Intersolar: Niche Market or Frontline?</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/16/live-intersolar-niche-market-or-frontline/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/16/live-intersolar-niche-market-or-frontline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Englander</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liveblog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Solar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Intersolar]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/?p=373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting in the hallway outside the fifth floor bathroom in the InterContinental trying to come up with a creative answer to this question. In about three and half hours I&#8217;m scheduled to talk at and moderate a panel on residential solar finance along with reps from Akeena, SunRun, SolarCity and SunPower, and I&#8217;m still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News and Rumors From the Halls of Intersolar, Pt. 1</title>
		<link>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/15/news-and-rumors-from-the-halls-of-intersolar-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://greenlight.greentechmedia.com/2008/07/15/news-and-rumors-from-the-halls-of-intersolar-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wesoff</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Utilities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Greentech Media hosted an enormously successful all-day seminar on Concentrated Solar Power Markets and Technologies yesterday at Intersolar in San Francisco. Daniel Englander reported on it here. Over 300 people attended the seminar.
But as informative and compelling as the speakers were at the podium and on the panels – sometimes the more interesting conversations occur [...]]]></description>
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