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Investors Find Green Technology Is Not an Easy Win 

HALF MOON BAY, CALIFORNIA -- When Tony Perkins, author of The Internet Bubble , hosts a venture conference featuring a panel about "Going Green," it underscores ... that investors smell money in funding cleaner energy technologies. In fact, enough investors have been chasing clean-tech investments that the talk is already turning to a coming shakeout. Much of the clean-tech buzz at Perkins' conference for investors and entrepreneurs, Venture Summit West , centered on whether or not venture investors would see returns on the billions they've already invested in biofuels, solar power and wind farms. "In 2008, you're going to see a lot of (clean-tech) venture flameouts," said Erik Straser, general partner at Mohr Davidow, which is heavily invested in clean tech. "Fundamentally the market drivers are very strong for these companies, but companies are going to have trouble in the market execution. And a lot of capital has gone into a lot of companies." Still, venture capitalists are fundamental   [More...] [Less...]