Senate Funding for "Rural" Clean Tech
Nov 5, 2007
Clean tech blog Earth2Tech, which happens to be today's Blog of the Day, has an update on the 2007 Farm Bill that is expected to move to the Senate Floor this week.
So why is a Silicon Valley blog writing about funding for the agriculture industry? Consider it a sign of the green times.
According to Earth2Tech, "assuming that the bill doesn't get too altered on the Senate floor, $1.4 billion in government money could be approved for rural clean tech. Between now and 2012, a new pool of government grants and funding could fund an awful lot of bioenergy startups, as well as fuel ongoing research."
Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has been one of the earliest and biggest funders of biofuel startups. In fact, here's a list, also from Earth2Tech, of ten biofuel companies from around the country that Khosla has invested in.
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Clean Tech, Senate, Vinod Khosla
