eBay Founder Omidyar Invests in Hawaiian Solar

[qi:_earth2tech] Those that forged infotech are going green in droves. The latest is eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, who has just invested in Hawaiian startup Sopogy, a builder of small-scale solar thermal plants that concentrate the suns rays to produce power. Unlike many well-known solar thermal startups that are building huge plants in the desert, Sopogy’s technology is on a much smaller scale, and can even be installed on rooftops. And this isn’t Omidyar’s first cleantech investment; last year his trust also invested in biodiesel company USBioDiesel Group. For the full story, got to Earth2Tech.

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