"Disruptive Technology" sounds like a fun area, except for the name.
Make activated charcoal into methane and see if it provides a better
diamond coating than ordinary methane? And one hopes it could be used
to produce wortwhile educational materials and perhaps offset a failed
project with an illustrative documentary that merits a tax shelter.
It's a wonder there isn't a technology failures documentary cable
channel, in case there are any Google shareholders looking for ideas
for the pink sheet-like global google stock exchange that free the
world's brilliance to do something besides chase bank debt in order to
implode in the vacuum of enterprise infrastructure it fosters?

Ooh, got a bit off the point there.

I would appreciate a list of venture capital firms specializing in
green/alternative/new energy technology. Sort of like Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers?

That's it, hopefully it isn't much.

My interest is contacting folks like these to "executive summary" them
things that I'd like to do. If the world's oceans are so precious, why
don't we have a tunnel under the Atlantic yet? The energy expense?
Alternative energy seems like such a good thing -- you can refreeze
the poles, you know? And glorify God.

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Clarification of Question by scotttygett-ga on 14 May 2006 19:15 PDT

I have to admit I am a speck mysitifed by the lack of interest in this
question. I just got lazy, and figured it would save me the usual
heartache. I love this field, but then I poke around a bunch of
websites and they turn out to be dead-ends, so I figured I'd skip a
lot of fishing?

Whever locked this question when it first came out, I hope you try it
again. I just did a Google search agani, again, out of jaw-dropped
befuddlement, and there were some hearty web pages of URL's about
energy VClike:

http://energypriorities.com/entries/2005/11/energy_venture.php

or googling Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiner_Perkins_Caufield_&_Byers

which is interesting, because I follow Colin Powell's activities and
that he wants to work on alternative fuels at kpcb.com and I had no
idea they were investors in google.com, which just goes to show?

Anyway, this is free money, guys, pretend to answer it and get twelve
big ones (literally).

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Clarification of Question by scotttygett-ga on 22 May 2006 13:06 PDT

I must say, the CaliforniaInvestmentNetwork.com adlink posted is the
most legitimate looking enterprise-centric business model I've seen.
Wish I'd though of it.

So nobody wants the twelve bucks?

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Clarification of Question by scotttygett-ga on 30 May 2006 19:24 PDT

I emailed CaliforniaInvestmentNetwork.com to ask them for info about
the typical investor or number of investors they have, and they didn't
get back to me. Again, it's a great idea for a business, unless all of
the investors are loan companies looking for real estate collateral.
Paying $200 for a list of emails when those guys call your phone night
and day sounds a little silly.

I recently ran across an atricle mentioning that Draper Fisher
Jurvetson (http://www.dfj.com/) was looking at "clean energy"
investments.  Since VC's often do deals alongside other VC's, you
might do a search on some of the investments they have made in the
sector to find other energy investors.

For example, Greenfuel Technologies website
(http://www.greenfueltechnologies.com) mentions other financial
backers.

If Kleiner Perkins has any energy investments, you might do the same.

Good luck.

Konarka's (a DFJ investment in photo voltaics) website lists 24
investors with links to their websites.  Should give you plenty of
leads if you keep peeling the onion.

http://www.konarkatech.com/about/investors_partners/investors/index.php

Thanks Tannerbarker.