'Clean energy era'

The Internet era (dot-com) in the US is probably making way for the power era (watt-com). Many veterans in the Internet technology sector are gathering and finding a " new mission" in the field of alternative energy such as wind, solar, ethanol or hydrogen, although it is likely to take years to take into account commercial profit.

The fact is that many investment funds start pouring billions of dollars into energy start-up companies with names like SunPower, Nanosolar . Dot-com entrepreneurs are all aiming at conversion to the energy market is estimated at up to 1,000 billion USD.

Vinod Khosla, the leading investor in Silicon Valley, said greenly: 'America's top minds are no longer focused on developing the drug of the future or thinking of a revolution in Silicon Valley. . They want to do business in the energy sector. '

US investors believe in the era of clean technology, their investment orientation is right. Regis McKenna, a veteran marketing strategist, cited the example: the microprocessor was invented in 1971, but it took 10 years for Intel to find a market for it through the explosion of personal computers.

The clean energy ride is the fashion of the rich in America (Photo: Reuters)

N. QUAN