The greenies love the green (emphasis mine):

Obama’s embrace of renewable energy has endeared him to an industry that’s counting on a green revolution to be the sequel to the 1990s Internet boom. “Obama wants to stop global warming, and he wants to create economic growth by building up cleantech,’’ says Westly, who served as California’s controller from 2003 to ‘07 and has raised more than $500,000 for Obama’s bid. “Obama gets the future, and that’s what Silicon Valley is all about.’’ `Promising Startup’ Westly and others in the information technology industry contributed almost $4.3 million to the Obama campaign through Sept. 2, according to the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics. That’s quadruple the $1 million for McCain. “The Valley views this as an investment in a very promising startup,’’ says John Roos, CEO of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the Palo Alto-based law firm that’s represented Apple Inc. and Google. Tech leaders will expect a return on their investment should Obama win on Nov. 4. Support for renewable energy technologies is at the top of their list. In the first half of 2008, venture capital firms plowed more than $2.4 billion into young companies in the U.S. that turn out solar panels printed like newspapers, biofuel distilled from wood chips and software that makes the electricity grid more efficient, among other inventions. That’s a 60 percent jump from a year ago, according to Cleantech Group LLC, a research firm in Brighton, Michigan, which projects investment will hit $4.5 billion for the full year. $150 Billion Plan Venture capitalists could use a boost. They’re struggling with an investing climate that’s the gloomiest since the bust of 2000 and ‘01. In the first half of 2008, only five venture-backed companies went public in the U.S., the poorest showing in five years, according to the National Venture Capital Association. “Almost everybody who’s been in the Valley for any period of time is pursuing cleantech now,’’ says Dixon Doll, the association’s chairman and general partner of DCM, a Menlo Park- based VC firm. That’s where VCs see Obama coming in. In his policy proposal, the senator pledged to invest $150 billion over 10 years to develop solar farms in the Sunbelt, plug-in hybrid cars that get 150 miles per gallon (64 kilometers per liter) and clean coal that doesn’t spew carbon.