PMBVentures - is an “Infrastructure Content” web portal; the site chronicles the evolution of the U.S. & Global Infrastructure re-building effort, while highlighting Business & Investment opportunities in “Green & Renewable Technologies” - Key categories Smart Grid, Energy Storage, Wind, Solar, Energy Management & Efficiency, Electric Vehicles & Charging Network, Biofuels,Environment,Biotech,Health Care, High Speed Rail, and Education among others.
A knowledge base of Current Economic & Political Issues, Projects, Technologies, Funding, Policy & Legislation, Research, Trading Indices & Funds and a watch list of Companies are presented Globally & Nationally by sector.
The content is structure for easy access with internal search filters and extensive links to relevant sites across the web,
Blogs --The U.S. Economy A Different Prospective, and U.S. Infrastructure.
What We Do:
PMBVentures specializes in providing information, research and advisory services to Businesses and investors involved (or potentially involved) in Infrastructure endeavors. We track and analyze Economic, Political, Policy & Legislation issues, in addition to major Sectors such as Energy, Transportation, Environmental, Health Care and Education activities.
Highlighted below are two of the main areas covered:
· Energy -
o Smart Grid is a highly intelligent and interactive electric system—one ripe with decision-making information exchange and market-based opportunities. We track technologies, interaction between participants & interoperability between technologies. Identification of major players (companies) and business opportunities.
o Renewable “green” Energy and low-carbon technology, including, Wind, Solar, Biofuels, Biomass, and Energy Efficiency, as well as the Carbon markets. Where an estimated total of $155bn was invested in clean energy technologies, companies and projects in 2008.
§ Solar technologies which capture energy directly from the sun. These include direct production of electricity using semiconductor-based photovoltaic (PV) materials, use of concentrated sunlight to heat fluid to drive power generation equipment (solar thermal electricity generation or STEG), and passive methods which use solar to replace fossil fuel energy, for example to heat water. The photovoltaic sector is the largest of these in terms of investment volume, while passive is the largest in terms of fuel saved and carbon dioxide emissions reduced globally. However, PV is expected to dramatically reduce costs through new technologies and increased manufacturing scale, and is expected to break into new areas of energy demand over the coming decades.
§ Wind is the renewable technology that has had the biggest impact on our energy usage patterns over the past decade. The next decade will see continued activity, particularly in developing countries and offshore. The Wind sector includes components and subassemblies for wind turbines as well as manufacturers of turbines themselves. A big part of this sector, however, consists of the various developers, generators, utilities and engineering firms that have sprung up to exploit opportunities to build wind farms around the world.
§ Storage Many renewable energy and emerging energy technologies are either intermittent, or have response curves that are unable to follow the dynamic demands that will be put on them when deployed. Batteries and other energy storage technologies therefore become key enablers for any shift to these technologies. We call the sector power storage in order to underline the fact that hydrogen storage is in the Hydrogen sector, even though we include here mechanical technologies like flywheels that are straight potential replacements for batteries.
§ Carbon Capture and Storage Given the very substantial energy appetites of China, India and the US, and the substantial amounts of coal and natural gas available in those countries, it is highly unlikely that they will move rapidly enough to clean and renewable energy sources. One type of technology may allow us to continue using these fuels without adding to the emissions of CO2. Carbon capture and storage technologies involve the separation of CO2 from the exhaust stream from the burning of fossil fuels, and its long-term storage, either in depleted oil and gas fields, under the ocean or elsewhere.
o Green Buildings This sector covers a range of technologies that reduce the use of energy in homes, retail and commercial buildings. Such technologies include advanced insulation, building components, HVAC, lighting and intelligent systems for managing power consumption, as well as the tools and services that allow companies to design and implement energy-smart buildings.
· Transportation –
o Trend analysis in regards to High Speed Rails, Highways & Bridges, Ports, Freight & Passenger Railroads and Transit Systems, critical elements to the nation’s environmental & economic security.
o Efficiency -technologies that reduce the use of fuel consumption associated with all types of transportation. Key technologies include electric or hybrid vehicles, electric vehicle infrastructure, combustion efficiency technologies such as new engine designs, superchargers and fuel additives. Transportation efficiency does not include biofuels, LNG or CNG. Power storage technologies relating to electric or hybrid vehicles will remain classified under Power Storage.
o Hydrogen everything from the production and storage of hydrogen, through its distribution and the various technologies and applications in which it can be used. Hydrogen is not, of course, a renewable fuel source - it is only a carrier of energy, in the same way electricity is not a source but a carrier of power. But if produced renewably, hydrogen looks like a promising candidate to replace fossil fuels in transport as these are depleted, and governments and corporations are investing accordingly.
o Fuel Cells Many observers believe that fuel cells will lie at the heart of any post-fossil energy architecture. Although they have been around for 150 years and their performance is not in doubt, their high manufacturing costs and low reliability mean that they have yet to capture any mass markets. A large number of companies and research initiatives are hoping to change that over the coming decade. We draw a distinction between the hydrogen industry and the fuel cell sector: fuel cells can burn a variety of hydrocarbon fuels, and hydrogen can be used by other systems, such as internal combustion engines. There is, however, substantial crossover between the two sectors
Our potential client base includes Venture Capitalists, Private Equity Providers, Financial Analysts, Asset Managers, Investment Banks, Project Developers, Construction Contractors, Corporates and Advisors.
.Founder
Paul A. Brooks - An independent Consultant with over 25 years of experience in Technology, Financial & Engineering Industries.
Blogs: The U.S. Economy A Different Prospective
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Peter B. Brooks