Not exact matches
Accountability should be judged on tangible industrial measures like start - up
tech company survival rates after three and five years, number of new products and services brought to market
annually by companies that IRAP supported, and overall ROI after three or five years.
The Bush administration and a consortium of
tech companies Tuesday vowed to drive down government and corporate data center energy use
by 10 percent
by 2011, saving about 10 billion kilowatt - hours, or roughly the amount of energy consumed
by one million U.S. households
annually.
Khosla still invests in clean
tech, but says one of his rules is that, if a technology can't survive without taxpayer subsidies five years after it launches, he won't risk his own funds on it (here in Ontario, Canada, we've been committed
by our government to paying hundreds of millions
annually in subsidies to wind and solar
companies for the next 20 years).