Energy innovation

"Wind, solar, nuclear and geo-thermal are all now attracting attention even from venture capitalists like Vinod Khosla and John Doerr, Silicon Valley superstars who until recently stuck to computers and the internet," writes Jonathan Weber in his weekly column. "Yet appealing as it is to think that we can apply the Silicon Valley model of innovation to the energy problem, the fundamentals of energy technology are completely different."

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