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That capital is already paying off. Revenues for companies in solar energy, wind, biofuels and fuel cells surged from $40 billion in 2005 to $55 billion in 2006, according to the research group Clean Edge. Clean energy?related companies raised over $10.3 billion in ipos in 2006, up from $4.3 billion in 2005, and hot new companies such as First Solar, whose stock jumped from $25 to $215 in the past year, are angling to become green Googles. In turn, green venture capital in the U.S. is projected to rise to $18 billion by 2010, according to Nicholas Parker...
...gigawatt, in the coming years, according to the New York Times. They have teamed with two firms to develop solar energy based on heat generation—which has the potential for greater energy production than photovoltaic cells—and to harvest the abundant energy of high-altitude winds. Google’s goal is to bring the cost of its renewable energy below that of today’s cheapest, but most environmentally harmful option: coal.The search is on for what a McKinsey analysis calls “breakthrough innovations”—the sort that...
...former Michigan governor grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth, much like Dahl’s Veruca Salt. Romney is definitely the most blue-blooded and aristocratic of all candidates, and has shown a penchant for flip-flopping as the political wind changes, just as the greedy Veruca constantly changed her mind about what she wanted. The loud, brash, and hypercompetitive former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani most resembles Violet Beauregaurde. Consistently exaggerating his record when talking about “cleaning up New York City” and obsessively mentioning 9/11 in nearly every speech...
Nobody said that being UC president would be easy: the temperature tomorrow morning will be 28 degrees—21 with the wind chill—according to The Weather Channel. —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...work.At first glance, “Approaching Nowhere” appeals to the average over-worked Harvard student’s escapist fantasies. Full-page photographs of empty highways ending in mist and deserted rest areas blend in with the barren landscape: you can almost feel the wind whistling in your ears. On closer examination, however, Brouws, far from endorsing the dream of travel, in fact denounces the dystopia of the American Dream and its obsession with mobility of all kinds.Though Brouws’s social criticism is effective without being heavy-handed or militant, it is not immediately comprehensible...