4 posts and columns on coal

Most Tech Stocks Were Naughty, Some Nice and Only Apple Merry, as Year Ends

in News on December 26, 2011 at 1:06 pm PT

Tech investors had better watch out in 2012.
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Transphorm Nabs $20 Million From Google Ventures, Kleiner

in News on February 23, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

Yet another “stealth” start-up came out of hiding today with a big Silicon Valley funding. That would be Transphorm, a power conversion technology company, that has raised $20 million more in a Series C financing led by Google Ventures and including Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital and Lux Capital. That adds to $18 million already raised.

Google: Beyond Thunderdome

in News on October 3, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

You can make money without doing evil. You can also make it without using so much fossil fuel. That’s the word from Google, which today unveiled a $4.4 trillion plan it says will reduce the nation’s dependence on coal and oil. Google’s “Clean Energy 2030” plan proposes to wean the U.S. off of coal and oil for electricity generation by 2030 by relying on power from wind, nuclear and geothermal sources instead.