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Obama Omelette: Greentech Media’s Breakfast at Buck’s

Eric Wesoff: November 12, 2008, 12:00 PM

Buck's is a quirky Silicon Valley watering hole that feeds pancakes to celebrities, VCs and regular folks. Greentech Media held its inaugural VC Breakfast at Buck's on Wednesday morning in an event destined to become a Silicon Valley institution -- like the Algonquin Roundtable with pancakes instead of martinis.

Breakfast was attended by investors from Mohr Davidow Ventures (Will Coleman), Alloy Ventures (Dan Rubin), Triple Point Capital (Mark Watt), Rockport Capital (Victor Westerlind), Nth Power (Rodrigo Prudencio), Greylock Partners (Isaac Fehrenbach) and Lightspeed Venture Partners (Peter Nieh).

These gentlemen have a long history in cleantech and our (off-the-record)...

Low-Temp Waste Heat Company Snares $2.6M

Michael Kanellos: November 12, 2008, 8:36 AM
What's the main problem with trying to exploit waste heat in factories to generate electricity? The high temperatures required, says Bill Olson, vice president of business development at ElectraTherm, which has released a low-temperature waste heat device called the Green Machine. ElectraTherm said it raised $2.6 million today. Low is a relative term. The system requires air that's heated to about 200 to 400 degrees, but that is less than half the temperature required by conventional systems. The Green Machine takes hot air and runs it through a heat exchanger. On the other side of the heat exchanger is a volatile refrigerant. The heat converts the refrigerant from a liquid to a...