Cleantech

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Cleantech

• Introduction to Nanotechnology
• Foothill College

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Overview

• Definition of cleantech
• Companies in cleantech
• Size and scope of industry
• Typical problems addressed
• Venture interest in cleantech

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Definitions of Cleantech

• What is "cleantech"?
• The term "cleantech" refers to technologies that
• - Use energy, water and other raw materials more
  efficiently and productively,
• - Deliver equal or superior performance,
• - Improve customer profitability, through cost
  reduction and / or increased revenues, and
• - Create less waste or toxicity
• ... as compared to incumbent technologies
• http//cleantechvc.blogspot.com/

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Companies in Cleantech

• Energy
• Solar, fuel cell, batteries
• Remediation
• Air, water, soil
• Water purification
• Sensor technology
• Smart material sourcing

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Size and Scope of Cleantech

• 100 or more public companies
• Ranging from 100M to 25B in revenues
• Hundreds of start-ups
• Most with product 2 years or less way
• Energy is multi trillion dollar industry
• Clean water is a billion dollars a day
• Environmental remediation is also big

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Cleantech Problems

• Water purification
• Environmental remediation
• Clean and abundant energy
• Sensors for environmental health
• Materials for energy conservation
• Materials for intelligent manufacturing

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Water Purification

• Over a billion people lack clean water
• 10,000 children a day die from drinking water
  contaminated with disease
• It is a growing problem (not decreasing)
• gt6 billion people on a crowded planet
• Competition for water from many sources
• It is what nanotechnology should solve

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Environmental Remediation

• Fixing our messes
• The US has been here for decades
• MTBE, CClx, mercury, lead, asbestos
• China is staring at it right now
• Chemical industry and manufacturing
• Many of these problems are very big
• They are multibillion problems, if not more

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Clean Energy

• Solar energy
• Fuel cells
• Batteries
• Motors
• Wind production
• Hydrogen production
• LED and CNT lighting

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Environmental Sensors

• Water contamination
• Air pollution
• Soil contamination
• Indoor building pollution
• Radiation monitoring
• Provide information to make decisions!

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Size of Industry

• Billions, if not trillions
• Solar energy
• 250 billion just to get 25
• Hybrid vehicles to double gas mileage
• 2.5 trillion
• Water and soil remediation
• Super fund sites run in hundreds of billions

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Sustainability

• This is the 64 question
• What is sustainability?
• Is 6 billion people sustainable?
• Is 10 billion people sustainable?
• What is the carrying capacity of earth?
• Any species that doubles in population more than
  a few times may find itself out of bounds and
  we have doubled a lot!

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Size of Industry

• Companies 50 to 100 just in California
• People - gt 1,000 and probably 10,000
• Revenue - gt 1 billion
• Solar alone is 900 million
• Products
• Over 1,000 energy and environmental
• Environmental programs

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Summary

• Cleantech is here to stay!
• Names may change, but not the intent
• Technology intersects environment
• Need to improve our living conditions
• We have very big problems to solve
• And not a lot of time to do it in
• Sustainability and carrying capacity

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References

• http//www.cleantech.com/
• http//www.cleantechventure.com/
• http//www.cleanedge.com/
• http//cleantechvc.blogspot.com/
• http//www.cleanedge.com/CEindex.php
• http//www.antennagroup.com/
• http//www.calcleancars.org/