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The Fast Company online publication announced today that RZ made their top 50 most innovative companies in 2009. The publication basis their picks on each companies ability to demonstrate and execute to precision the power of innovative ideas. Companies such as Raser Technologies are the institutions that are going to redefine our country and will be the leaders of our future as we build a better tomorrow. 

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RZ write up at number 50

Fortune’s Series entitled “The Business of Green” featured Raser Technologies’ Chairman, Kraig Higginson, to discuss geothermal’s rise in the energy sector. 

The Fortune news piece, which can be found here… (choose the video clip on the right entitled “Geothermal goes full steam ahead”) is not only excellent exposure for Raser but a very informative look at Geothermal energy as a whole.

While much of the segment was filmed on the location of Raser’s newly built Utah plant with Mr. Higginson, Fortune also conducted interviews with Joseph Moore PhD, a researcher at the University of Utah and Mr. Gary Herbert, Lt. Governor of Utah.

It was many years ago that Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the white house roof and offered tax credits to Americans using solar energy.  Ronald Reagan, in a somewhat thumb-his-nose at prior administration maneuver, had the solar panels removed and the tax credits eliminated.  While Reagan probably assumed he was squashing frivolous spending, it goes to show how long we have seen renewable energy as our next step in environmental evolution. 

Coming full circle, the army now plans to acquire 4,000 electric vehicles for non-combat use on military bases (and potentially even replacing all non-combat cars which number in the 30,000’s). Read the rest of this entry »

Montara Ventures has been overly critical of RZ in the past; for them to put this on their site is huge!

http://montaraventures.com/energy/2009/01/07/initial-testing-at-thermo-completed/

As 2008 comes to an end Raser Technologies Inc. finds its way on Barrons.com blog. This is huge news for RZ because Barrons.com has a unique reader base since it is a paid for site. Therefore the subscribers to Barrons.com are typically classified as the more serious investor compared to other publications and sites which are free. 

Raser Technologies Rises Nearing Completion of Geothermal Plant by Tiernan Ray