GreatPoint Energy is a technology-driven natural resources company and the developer of a proprietary, highly-efficient catalytic process, known as hydromethanation.
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In an interview yesterday with Michael Moritz (Forbesâ 2x Midas List winner), California controller John Chiang hinted that venture capital could see even less money than might be hoped from Calprs and Calstrs, two of the biggest Limited Partners sugar daddies that VCs go to for funds. Moritz asked Chiang, who sits on the ___ of the firms, how the funds were doing. Chiang, it what appeared to be a bit of on-stage negotiating intimated that many âalternative investmentsâ were not âhigh quality,â and that the standard 2-and-20 management fees typically doled out to fund managers would have to be re-evaluated. In other words, if VCs, who as an investment block have performed poorly in the last decade, want a piece of Californiaâs shrinking public funds, theyâre going to have to take a serious paycut.
HP is equipping environmentalist and adventurer David de Rothschild with the technology needed to sail 10,000 miles across the Pacific on a boat made entirely of plastic bottles. (disclosure: HP is a paying sponsor of AlwaysOn) The Pacific Ocean is home to the worldâs biggest trash dump, and a large portion of that is plastic. In an attempt to raise awareness of the oceanic mess, David de Rothschild, founder of Adventure Ecology, is readying a sea voyage from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia, aboard the Plastiki, a boat made entirely of plastic bottles. Rothschild says discoveries like that of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch inspired the expedition. âI was like, hang on a second. This canât be true,â he said in a recent interview. âWhy doesnât everybody know about this? Why donât we know about the fact that our oceans are basically filling up with trash?â By turning the symbol of waste into an adventure, Rothschild hopes to inspire young people to develop smart solutions to environmental problems. ...
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