Earth2Tech Week in Review

Another week goes by and it doesn’t look like we’re any closer to finishing the Democratic Primary. In case you were too busy watching the Texas and Ohio results roll in, we’ve compiled Earth2Tech’s top headlines from last week for easy access to what went down in cleantech land:

• New Energy Finance’s Top 10 Clean Energy: New Energy Finance has been crunching the 2007 data and calculates that cleantech investment was up 34 percent to $9.8 billion. Here’s a look at the top ten venture capitalists and private equity firms from ‘07.
• WTF Are Fourth-Generation Biofuels?: Lab breakthroughs are advancing biofuels dramatically, but how are we already talking about “fourth-generation biofuels?” For that matter, what exactly are first-, second-, and third-generation biofuels? We’ve got the breakdown.
• Elon Musk, Braemar Back Ocean Seeding Startup Climos: The controversial tactic of ocean seeding just got some funding from some serious backers – Tesla Motors’ Chairman and the VCs who backed now public EnerNOC.
• It Takes a (Russian) Rocket Scientist to Build A Wind Turbine: From the team that brought you Russia’s sub-launched ICBMs comes something designed to save the world, not destroy it. A group of Russian engineers have designed a high-efficiency small-scale wind turbine that doesn’t require a go-code.
• Newsom Waves On SF Tidal Energy: The most recent report from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission doesn’t think that the currents in the Bay are strong enough for tidal power but San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom won’t be so easily deterred.