The Top 10 Green-Tech Breakthroughs of 2008 January 1st, 2009 Green technology was hot in 2008. Barack Obama won the presidential election promising green jobs to Rust Belt workers. Investors poured $5 billion into the sector just through the first nine months of the year. And even Texas oilmen like T. Boone Pickens started pushing alternative energy as a replacement for fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas. But there’s trouble on the horizon. The economy is hovering somewhere

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The Top 10 Green-Tech Breakthroughs of 2008