Venture Beat Green: Who's Successfully Raising Capital for Cleantech Start-ups?
Heeding my own advice and “following the money,” I like to check out Venture Beat Green every week or so, to see who’s successfully raising capital for cleantech start-ups.
Here’s a story about SolSource, a company that used crowd-funding (KickStarter), and raised three times its goal, and offers a solar-powered cooking grill. One thinks of the noxious output of cooking as coming largely from the developing world, where most of the energy for this purpose is derived from slashing and burning the forest. Yet apparently:
Last Fourth of July, barbecues generated more CO2 in a single day than many African nations produce in a year. One SolSource solar grill can offset the carbon footprint of four Americans.
This is very cool. I made a solar cooker from a bucket, a car windshield reflector, a large plastic pretzel container and a 2.5 quart pickle jar painted black. Very cheap and highly effective. The cooker actually works extremely well. My cooking skills on the other hand leave much to be desired. To date I have boiled water, made mashed potatos, baked apples and beef stew. These things do work well and this one looks like it should be very effective.