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Missing out on a goldmine?

November 20, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
“Just because one smart grid company is successful, it doesn’t create a wave. They've been working at it for a long time. Hiding behind that wave is the wrong thing to do.”
— Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla at the GreenBeat 2009 conference, wishing he’d had the foresight to invest in Silver Spring Networks.

James Dean of the sea

November 13, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"These fish do not school. …They are loner fish."
— Clive Zickel about the cobia fish that Open Blue Sea Farms is raising in deep-ocean aquaculture (Full story »)

Marvel mutants

November 6, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
“We’ve developed mutants that produce hydrogen.”
— Ben Hankamer, director of the Solar Biofuels Consortium, on engineered super algae that could produce large quantities of hydrogen (Full story »)

I'd like fries with that

October 30, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"It’s a little bit like McDonald's."
— Endress+Hauser Director of Marketing Jorg Herwig on his company's consistency of sensor manufacturing (story »)

The height of secrecy

October 23, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
“We don’t have patents. We will never have patents. It’s a trade secret.”
— EKO GEA CEO Mary Keenan on the Slovenian company’s marine algae extraction process (Full story »)

Second time's a charm

October 16, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"You only want to repair these things once."
— Suzlon Energy's Duncan Koerbel on the $100 million spent to fix cracked turbine blades (Full story »)

A gold mine

October 9, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"It was like making gold out of lead."
— KGRA Energy CEO Jason Gold, on finding low-temperature geothermal power plant sites (Full story »)

Just like Mom used to make

October 2, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Once you get it going, you pump them out like cookies." 
— Brian Bartholomeusz of AQT on using equipment from the hard disk drive industry to make CIGS solar cells (Full story »)

Break out the cigars

September 25, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
“We see this as the rebirth of the IPO market.”
— Richard Brody, VP of Business Development for San Diego-based PowerGenix on A123Systems’ IPO (Full story »)

Is China listening?

September 18, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"We may not have been part of the problem, but we definitely will be part of the solution."
— India's Minister of Environment and Forestry Jairam Ramesh, speaking in Delhi about an international climate change agreement at Copenhagen in December.

Speak for yourself

September 11, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
“Were we stupid or greedy? Well, why not both?”
— Babson College President Leonard Schlesinger at Cleantech Forum Boston on the basis for the financial downturn of the past year (story »)
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