Obama Green Talk Is Gold to Silicon Valley

Senator Barack Obama Wednesday proposed that the federal government spend $150 billion over 10 years to promote alternative energy and create several million jobs. ...His words reverberated in Silicon Valley, which has been lobbying hard for more federal investment in clean-technology projects. As part of his plan, the Illinois Democrat pledged that, if president, he would invest $10 billion a year in creating what he called a “Clean Technologies Deployment Venture Capital Fund.” Such a fund, he said, would help finance companies involved in the alternative energy sector.