The EntreTech Forum Presents ... CLEANTECH -- Power Wars -- Who Wins in the End and Where Does Venture Investing and Academia Fit?

BOSTON , March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 17th the EntreTech Forum's presents a triple play of experts from coal, marine and wind CLEANTECH companies across different categories of fundraising to date to address the context of business formation and investment and the advanced research emerging from our leading universities and the entrepreneurs and visionaries who are developing the commercial potential of this research.

Enormous amounts of financial, entrepreneurial and technological resources have been invested in clean technology enterprises in the past century, with mixed success. With $100/barrel oil, a greener future seemed at hand. At $40/barrel oil, how has the future changed for our panelists? To what extent is CLEANTECH a solution to a pressing problem or a solution being applied to what no longer is a problem?

Our panel will address those issues and questions and involves three interwoven tracks of energy:

    --  Hydromethanation, by which coal, petroleum coke and biomass are
        converted directly into low-cost, clean, pipeline quality natural gas,
        while allowing for the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide
        (CO2).

    --  "WaveWater", is investigating the feasibility of using wave
        energy to manufacture fresh water using seawater reverse-osmosis (SWRO)
        desalination units.

    --  Advanced energy storage systems to transform wind and other intermittent
        energy sources into dispatchable, firm power sources suitable for
        peaking, intermittent and baseload generation.

    Tuesday, March 17, 2009 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.

    The Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag,
    The Bay Colony Corporate Center
    1000 Winter St., Ste. 4000
    Waltham, MA
    Cost: $25 -- public; $10 -- students & active military;  $15 -- co-sponsor

For information, registration and directions visit our web site http://www.entretechforum.org/

Pre-Registration Available Online http://theentretechforum.camp7.org/

Directions & Map http://www.entretechforum.org/7_contact.htm

Moderator:

    --  Larry Grumer, Technology Associates & Alliances

Panelists:

    --  Andrew Friendly, Principal, ATV
    --  Avi Goldberg, VP & COO, GreatPoint Energy
    --  Bill Staby, Co-Founder, Resolute Marine Energy
    --  Julianne Zimmerman, VP of Communications, General Compression

Meeting Organizers:

    --  Gary Patterson, FiscalDoctor
    --  Andrew Fairbairn, Managing Principal, Fairbairn Ventures

About The EntreTech Forum

The EntreTech Forum consists of moderated monthly panel discussions on emerging academic research and the commercialization of this technology. It was designed for those interested in technology innovation and marketing collaboration and networking with fellow entrepreneurs, business and government executives, investors, and technology researchers.

The technology-innovation presentations feature entrepreneurial and corporate accomplishments along commercialization pathways with discussions of tech transfer and technology incubation and research from universities, industry and government. The multi-disciplinary subjects of raising and utilizing different forms of capital, building alliances and structuring deals are included as part of the programming, and serve as tools for the entrepreneur and researcher to commercialize science and technology.

The EntreTech Forum is an affiliate of Northeastern University's School of Technological Entrepreneurship (STE) and is directed by a governing board of business principals, investors, and researchers.

For information and directions visit our web site at http://www.entretechforum.org/

CONTACT: Lawrence C. Grumer, Forum Chairman of The EntreTech Forum, +1-617-325-9852, +1-484-303-9852 (e-Fax), lgrumer@taacorp.com

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