I tell people that back in '91 and '92 when I was playing around with the earliest versions of the Net and building my home page (bonus for anyone who remembers the URL), I knew one thing: it was going to be BIG.
What I didn't know was: how to commercialize and make money off of it.
What I see now when it comes to Clean Energy is a "perfect storm" of macro-events and some similar components.
- The Greenpeace and Neo-Con Hawk alliance based on environmental concerns and global energy security
- The reduction in costs (relatively) of many alternative energy technologies
- The improving technologies themselves
- Rising demand in India/China, etc.
- The gathering tide of Venture Capital dollars in this area
Then, what I see are a lot of alternative energy technologists who have great ideas, but limited ideas of how to market/sell their ideas. The industry is ripe for the influx of technology savvy business people.
Always keeping my ears open for new opportunities, I met with Gary Skulnik of Clean Currents who has a wealth of experience in the market as well as some legislative/lobbying wins under his belt. His company has a cool idea..check it out.
It was a great 1.5 hour conversation where we shared ideas on the future of Wind, Solar, Geo-thermal, hydrogen, fuel cells, but not nuclear (next time, Gary).
Here's one thing I will say about "the next big thing/wave" that I have learned in the software/Internet business. Things never happen as quickly as you think they will. So, the alternative energy/green wave may not hit for 2, 4, or 6 years...but I believe it has to hit.
I've written about energy before, here, here, here, here, here and...you guessed it, here
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