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Because wasting waste is a waste

April 30, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Waste treatment or incineration is the lazy man's way out."
— Aloe Private Equity General Partner & Co-Founder Vivek Tandon, at Cleantech Forum XXII Copenhagen, calling for increased investor attention to materials recycling.
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Did he take up space in school?

April 14, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Coal and nuclear plants are just a fancy way of boiling water."
— Solaren CEO Gary Spirnak on his planned space-based solar array, for which California's PG&E just signed a power purchase agreement (story »)
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Dinero for Parco

April 1, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Homes really are the bottom of the barrel. They don't perform well, they cost too much and they're not very high quality."
— Parco Homes CEO Ben Parco on why he's seeking $5M for a prefab home manufacturing line (full story »)
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Who's zooming who?

March 11, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"When one calls the city of San Francisco and other places, you find that they don't have any contracts with Better Place."
— ECOtality President and CEO Jonathan Read challenging the announced customer wins of EV charging co. Better Place (story »)
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Understatement of the year award contender

March 6, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"When you look at the market, you'll see quite a few fuel cell developers that are not profitable."
— Frost & Sullivan analyst Sara Bradford on fuel cell maker Ballard Power Systems' newly announced $18M profit in 2008 (story »)
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Differentiate or die

February 22, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"If people can’t understand what you really have ... that’s sufficient reason to move on to something else."
— Consultant Steve Weiss on differentiation, the first of "four Ds" of cleantech marketing (story »)
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Because timing is everything

January 27, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"There’s never a perfect time ... but if we execute well this is a great time."
— 6N Silicon VP David Dunnison on his co.'s metallurgic grade silicon purification process (story »)
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One small step for CCS, one large step for mankind

January 7, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"This is a race to the moon. The company that get this up and running in places such as China and India will make massive amounts of money."
— Paul Soffe of carbon monetizer EcoSecurities on CCS (full interview »)
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Solar struggles

December 16, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"This shouldn't have come as a surprise."
— Ian Tharp of Dundee Capital Markets on the ripple effect of Q-Cells revising its 2009 forecast (story »)
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Silver lining

December 4, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"It’s now easier to tell good companies from bad."
— Greg Ye, Partner, New Margin Ventures, on the economic downturn & cleantech (story »)
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