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The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity
The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity
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Authors: Ron Pernick, Clint Wilder
Publisher: Collins Business
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars(17 reviews)
Sales Rank: 45248

Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.5

ISBN: 006089623X
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6
EAN: 9780060896232
ASIN: 006089623X

Publication Date: June 1, 2007
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Product Description

When industry giants such as GE, Toyota, and Sharp and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are making multibillion-dollar investments in clean technology, the message is clear. Developing clean technologies is no longer a social issue championed by environmentalists; it's a moneymaking enterprise moving solidly into the business mainstream. In fact, as the economy faces unprecedented challenges from high energy prices, resource shortages, and global environmental and security threats, clean tech?technologies designed to provide superior performance at a lower cost while creating significantly less waste than conventional offerings?promises to be the next engine of economic growth.

In The Clean Tech Revolution, authors Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder identify the major forces that have pushed clean tech from back-to-the-earth utopian dream to its current revolution among the inner circles of corporate boardrooms, on Wall Street trading floors, and in government offices around the globe. By highlighting eight major clean-tech sectors?solar energy, wind power, biofuels and biomaterials, green buildings, personal transportation, the smart grid, mobile applications, and water filtration?they uncover how investors, entrepreneurs, and individuals can profit from this next wave of technological innovation. Pernick and Wilder shine the spotlight on the winners among technologies, companies, and regions that are likely to reap the greatest benefits from clean tech?and they show you why the time to act is now.

Groundbreaking and authoritative, The Clean Tech Revolution is the must-read book to understand and profit from the clean technologies that are reshaping our fast-changing world.




Customer Reviews:   Read 12 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars Decent book surveying current major players   April 7, 2008
  1 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is a decent book with a useful catalog of the major activities and the major players in the clean-tech space. However, I was less than satsified with the quality of the research and the writing. I am willing to believe that the author's premise (when they introduce the potential of various technologies that they talk about) is true. But, because the premise is backed by little or no "solid" research that clearly draws out a defendable cause-and-effect relationship, I am not willing to believe that the authors' premise is true.


3 out of 5 stars Turns Green into Greed   March 23, 2008
  2 out of 6 found this review helpful

I hope we do not attempt to abandon altruistic appeals and implement sin taxes as this book recommends. Sin taxes will cause backlash. Cap and trade - yes, carbon taxes - maybe, but sin taxes - no way.

On the other hand Pernick and Wilder have compiled a nice reference for green investors.



5 out of 5 stars Excelente atencion y Buen libro   January 21, 2008
Excelente atencion de parte de Amazon y el libro se observa bastante interesante. Hasta la lectura que llevo lo recomiendo ampliamente. Saludos

Jose



4 out of 5 stars How about cleaner coal?   January 17, 2008
  3 out of 5 found this review helpful

As a co-founder of the California Clean Tech Open and clean-tech marketer, I've spent significant time analyzing business plans for clean tech ventures. In "The Clean Tech Revolution", Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder do a good job at providing a summary overview of the current state of this very broad space,in terms of VC funding main themes. I found the "Smart Grid" and "Clean Tech Marketing" chapters particularly well done. However, the role of "Cleaner Coal" technologies shouldn't have been ignored. Indeed, coal remains a very important source of power generation in the US, China and India and its impact on GHG is extremely significant!


4 out of 5 stars What is happening?   January 7, 2008
  0 out of 4 found this review helpful

Hi,
Please, i have not received the book i ordered, so can not offer any review now. Meanwhile, i leave in Stockholm,Sweden and want to buy books on Amazon and send to my friends on Nigeria, do you ship to Nigeria? I have to pay 50USD to ship the books(BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY) i bought last time and is not funny, to spend twice the cost of the book to send it home.

Benjamin
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