Posted in Business & Politics on Sep 11th, 2008
For four days in November up to fifteen Israeli cleantech companies are to be given VIP access to top decision makers including potential partners, funders and clients in California.
The delegation is being billed as the first of its kind, and will bring the Israeli companies to meet with executives from cleantech leaders including General [...]
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Posted in Science & Technology on Sep 11th, 2008
L.L Biofuel Namibia of the Leviev Group and Evogene (announced yesterday) that together with Orfuel, a subsidiary of geothermal power giant Ormat, they will establish a new company focused on the growth of specialized castor plants for use as feedstock for biodiesel. The new company will be headquartered in Namibia, with operations in Namibia and [...]
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Today Green Prophet speaks with Eyal Hadas, managing director and head of renewable energy at Cukierman & Co. Investment House Ltd. (CIH) in Tel Aviv. We met Eyal at a renewable energy conference at Tel Aviv University several months ago (when Al Gore was in town), and were impressed by his experience in the international [...]
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Posted in Science & Technology on Sep 5th, 2008
With the aura of an evangelist, Israel’s Shai Agassi is moving full steam ahead to revolutionize the electric car market, with Project Better Place. Essentially borrowing the model from the cellular market, Agassi plans to create a new electric car paradigm, where you switch batteries and pay for the lease of the battery (like [...]
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Posted in Business & Politics on Sep 5th, 2008
Today’s guest post is by Nissim Dahan, who is working to sell his “Vision of Hope.” Dagan envisions a network of individuals and organizations to help create economic prosperity in the Middle East. Through funding and implementing new environmental solutions, like clean technologies, Dahan believes the world can fight extremism. He uses the analogy of the [...]
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Posted in Science & Technology on Aug 31st, 2008
And the sun also rises…
Israelis are world-leaders in inventing solar energy solutions –– for today and tomorrow. To help you find the solution for your home, the business partner you need, or the company you’ve been dreaming about investing in, follow some of Green Prophet’s recommended links.
3GSolar
3GSolar is a leading developer of solar energy using [...]
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Posted in Waste - GProfits on Aug 29th, 2008
Prophecy: Ipson’s method makes it possible to process multi-component petroleum-based waste which contains organic matter, water with dissolved substances and solid particles. Gasoline fraction, gas-oil
and light mazut, conforming to standards, can be produced as market products at a high yield.
The process does not consume additional fuel.
Prophet: Dr. Alexander Bronshtein
Site: www.matimop.org.il/newrdinf/hamama/26026.htm
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Posted in Water - GProfits on Aug 28th, 2008
Prophecy: Atlantium Technologies has re-invented ultraviolet-based water disinfection using Hydro-Optic Disinfection™, the most efficient UV microbe inactivation technology available anywhere. Atlantium’s environmentally-friendly systems attain unprecedented levels of disinfection, helping industry and drinking water suppliers worldwide to provide healthier, safer products.
Prophet: Ilan Wilf - CEO
Site: www.atlantium.com
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Posted in Science & Technology on Aug 22nd, 2008
(Image credit: Corbis)
It’s bad for the environment, but you know you want it. You want those strawberries in the dead of winter. You know you should be eating local produce year round to avoid all of the carbon emissions associated with flying in food from distant places or using energy guzzling greenhouses to grow produce [...]
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Posted in Science & Technology on Aug 21st, 2008
(image credit: NYTimes blogs)
Man, alternative energy solutions can’t come fast enough. The world is teetering on the verge of runaway climate change (some predictors say there’s less than 100 months), and gas prices are killing us not only at the gas station, but are affecting everything we buy from food to clothes to you name [...]
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