The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity
- ISBN13: 9780060896232
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Product Description When industry giants such as General Electric, Toyota, and Sharp and investment firms like Goldman Sachs make billion-dollar investments in clean technologies, the message is clear. Developing clean technologies is no longer a social issue defended by environmentalists, it is a money-making businesses set to move into the business mainstream. In fact, what about the economy never developed unparalleled challenges from high energy prices, resource shortages and global environmental and safety risks, cleantech technologies to provide superior performance at lower cost in creating significantly less waste than conventional deals, promises that the next engine of economic growth. In The Clean Tech Revolution, authors Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, the main forces that have pushed clean tech from back-to-the-earth utopian to its current revolution among the inner circles of corporate boardrooms, on Wall Street trading floors, and government in offices around the globe. By highlighting eight major clean-tech sectors-solar energy, wind power, biofuels and biomaterials, green buildings, personal transportation, smart grid, mobile applications, and water filtration, they uncover how investors, entrepreneurs and individuals from the profit of this next wave of technological innovation. Pernick and Wilder shine the spotlight on the winners among technologies, companies and regions that are likely to benefit most from Cleantech harvesting, and she will show you why the time for action is now. Groundbreaking and authoritative, The Clean Tech Revolution is a "must-read book to understand and profit from clean technologies, the redesign of our rapidly changing world.
The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity
This is the wave of the future. Are you a liberal? Put your money where your mouth is. This where we should be supportive.
Rating: 4 / 5
Hello, Please, I have not received book that I ordered, not so now able to offer a revision. Meanwhile, I leave in Stockholm, Sweden and want to buy books from Amazon and to my friends in Nigeria, you need to ship to Nigeria? I paid 50USD books (Blue Ocean Strategy) Ship i bought last time and is not fun to spend twice the cost of the book to be sent home. Benjamin Ref 7788490
Rating: 4 / 5
I hope we are not trying to abandon altruistic appeal, and recommends implementation of sin taxes in this book. Sin taxes will cause backlash. Cap and trade – yes, carbon taxes – possibly, but sin taxes – under any circumstances. On the other hand, Pernick and Wilder have compiled an excellent reference for green investors.
Rating: 3 / 5
As co-founder of the California Clean Tech Open and clean-tech marketer, I have a lot of time analyzing business plans for clean-output tech companies. In "The Clean Tech Revolution, Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder did not have a good job with an overview of the current status of this very broad area in terms of the VC financing of major topics. I found the "Smart Grid" and "Clean-tech marketing" chapter done particularly well. But the role of "cleaner coal" technologies should have been disregarded. In fact, coal remains a very important source of electricity in the U.S., China and India and their impact on GHGs is extremely important!
Rating: 4 / 5
I am thrilled at the number of 5-star reviews for this book, especially those who said there was "no hype". This book is driven by hype. It is flat cheerleading for alternative energy and related businesses. If you get an overview of solar, wind and other alternative energy sources, you will be much better material on the free online sites to see how the American Wind Energy Association. If I have a book – as opposed to only download information from a Web page, however – I expect them to rise to a higher level. This book is not complete. It gives you an overview in order if you have no familiarity with these companies, but there's an easier way to achieve this goal. And if you are familiar with this area, this book is worthless. There are so many excellent blogs on energy, there really is no excuse for this fluff. Go read the 1001 R-Squared, or other major blogs and you will be better. Oh – and she not only does not like nuclear energy as a carbon-free energy do. . . they do not even say why, cemented his place in this book as pure propaganda.
Rating: 2 / 5