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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

この休み中に読んだ本の一つがこの、The Clean Tech Revolution.

Clean Techの注目すべきポイントを各Clean Tech Industryごとに細かく解説し、注目の会社やテクノロジーを取り上げていて、Clean techのreference bookには最適な本。



今年はオバマ政権になり、よりいっそうclean techに注目が集まると思うから、このお本片手に気になる会社をこれからも調べていく。

"We are in the midst of one of the greatest shifts in human history," write the authors. "Within 50 years, we'll look back at the beginning of the 21st century and see it as the tipping point for clean technology. The choice for investors, companies, governments, and individuals is simple. Be part of one of the greatest business and economic shifts in recorded human history, or become extinct like the dinosaurs whose fossils fueled the last great industrial revolution. The opportunity for wealth creation stands on one side of the equation and the very real threat of the collapse of civilization as we know it on the other."

The Clean Tech Revolution
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION （Click Here to Download PDF of the Full Introduction）

  1. SOLAR ENERGY （Click Here to Download PDF of the Complete Solar Chapter）
  2. WIND POWER
  3. BIOFUELS AND BIOMATERIALS
  4. GREEN BUILDINGS
  5. PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION
  6. SMART GRID
  7. MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES
  8. WATER FILTRATION
  9. CREATE YOUR OWN SILICON VALLEY
  10. CLEAN-TECH MARKETING

CONCLUSION

from the clean tech revolution


以下は自分の気になる会社と気に入ったquotesを紹介。

インドの貧困地域に独自のサービスとFinancial SystemによってSolar PV Systemを提供する会社。
活動は以下のビデオを見ると分かりやすい。


WaterHealth International is leading such a revolution ― the Blue Revolution ― with a mission to provide sustainable access to clean, safe water to all, including the poorest communities.

The company's technology uses low-voltage ultraviolet light to purify water. The system's energy needs are minimal, and the purification meets or exceeds some of the most stringent criteria for the removal of waterborne pathogens - including those of the World Health Organization and the U.S Environmental Protection Agency.

この会社についてのビデオ紹介
Bringing Pure Water to Villages - Business Week

このテクノロジーは画期的！子供がメリーゴーランドで遊びながら水が湧き出てくるシステム。

Worldchanging: Kid Energy

"The children push the merry-go-round again and again. As they run, a device in the ground beneath them begins to turn. With every rotation of the merry-go-round, water is pumped out of a well, up through a pipe, and into a tank high above the playground.


以下は本からのQuotesです。

the price of wind will always be zero. and that is a fundamental of our industry.
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One of the great advantages of most clean-energy technologies is price stability.
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Customers in these countries aren't motivated by the greenness of it - they just want a high-quality product at a good price.

最近の自分の興味は、Clean TechやらWorld Poverty and Climate Changeといった世界的な問題に感心が沸いてきた。


これらの問題は、今世紀中、私達が生きている間に解決しなければいけない問題だと捉えている。
他人事だとは思ってないし、本気で解決しようと、今の自分に出来る事、そしてこれからどのように問題解決に向けて貢献出来るかを考えていきます。