Thiel’s clean energy rep, such as it is, contrasts sharply with the activities of many other titans of the tech world.Ī-listers such as Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Vinod Khosla have been promoting climate action while frolicking through various forms of advanced technology, including electric vehicles and space rockets, wind energy, solar energy and souped-up toilets (and nuclear energy, but that opens up a can of worms that we won’t get into right now), and advanced energy storage aimed at wind and solar power. The CleanTechnica archives only contain three main references to Thiel, which is no surprise given his reported suspicion of the cleantech field. Peter Thiel Is No Fan Of Clean Technology. Sure enough, energy storage is one of the few that popped up, as well as some other interesting things. The Gawker case has practically every media stakeholder on the planet riled up, and all that noise motivated a search of the CleanTechnica archives to see what, if any, of Thiel’s technology investments have crossed our radar.

Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel has been in the news this past week, for reasons that have nothing to do with energy storage and much to do with a certain celebrity wrestler sex tape leading to a spicy First Amendment case aimed at Gawker Media.

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