Software: it's going to be one of the fastest growing segments in greentech. Today, Sustainable Minds and Autodesk announced that they will collaborate on services and products that will effectively make it easier for manufacturers to design cleaner products. Sustainable Minds develops design software and provides information on different materials and components. Autodesk, which has been producing design software since dinosaurs ruled the earth, sells one of the world's more popular applications for software prototyping. Put the two together and manufacturers can more easily begin to study, for example, how swapping out traditional plastic for a bioplastic might impact the...

There are about 25 VC-funded firms in the Concentrated Photovoltaic market.  We listed all of them in CPV Part One, Part Two and Part Three. Only a few of them, maybe 10 percent, will survive to win market share and perhaps be acquired or go public. That means at least 20 of those companies are doomed. Most will create pretty Websites, make outrageous claims, oxidize their investor’s money and waste journalists’ time. Which brings us to my interview with Sunrgi. Sunrgi is building a CPV system with a claimed 2000X concentration. The system has “built-in??? 2-axis tracking and is produced in 1kW blocks that integrate like Lego-blocks™.??? Greentech Media’s...