EnergyWire: Some of the world's richest people -- hedge fund managers, technology giants, industrialists, even Republicans -- have signed on with an investor group that will seek to bridge the nearly uncrossable gap that separates promising clean-energy technology from the marketplace.
The Breakthrough Energy Coalition, announced yesterday at the opening of the U.N climate conference in Paris, seeks to perform two heavy lifts. One is to use the lure of its contributions -- estimated by one member at $2 billion...