India versus China: Beyond Infrastructure

By Dominique Trempont, Guest Author [SM: Business Week’s Cover Story on India’s Infrastructure troubles, in my opinion, are being addressed seriously by the government and public-private collaborative efforts. We will cover this in more detail later. Dominique’s piece raises some other questions that are not being addressed as aggressively by India.] I just came back

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Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 5)

In this next segment I asked HP a couple of questions on what types of applications and markets he is planning for the future. As we have seen in the previous segments, HP has a firm grasp of ERI’s immediate core competency and it’s business environment. Here HP demonstrates another characteristic we often find in

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Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 4)

Many entrepreneurs struggle to fully understand their business environment. Here we see that HP has a very strong grasp on ERI, and how their technology impacts governments and social needs throughout the world. Discovery Channel called the PX the most significant engineering breakthrough that you will see in your lifetime.

Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 3)

In this next segment of the interview, HP takes us through his view of the future market demand for fresh water with a particular emphasis on areas which ERI can address. We discover in dismay, that the water supply of California is likely to dry up in the next 40 years due to global warming.

Small Car Boom Spells Urban Doom

by Satish Dey, Guest Author India is basking in the sunshine of its robust economic growth and the inevitable consumerism it has spurred by way of higher spending and improved lifestyles for its citizens. A car — the ubiquitous status symbol delineating the rich from the poor — is expectedly much in demand. The nation’s

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Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 2)

To understand the impact of ERI, I spent some time asking HP about the technical details and their business / market trend impact. As we proceed in the interview, I think it is important to point out how HP has made excellent use of timing with ERI. The stars all seem to have aligned finally,

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Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 1)

Next in our serial entrepreneur series is a fascinating interview with Norwegian entrepreneur, HP Michelet, who is Executive Chairman of Energy Recovery Inc, known more commonly as ERI. As you would expect, HP is a serial entrepreneur, involved with 8 different businesses from software to cleantech to – hold your breath – a cod farm,

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Davos: Energy’s Next Big Thing

“But Google’s Mr. Page had another topic on his mind: energy transmission. He said innovations are badly needed in energy transmission networks. Google is a heavy user of power for the armies of computer servers it must maintain, and it has to seek out cheap power geographically.” Yes, and India and China will need power

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