Editor’s Note: “About the Money” is a new feature or series of reports that will appear on CCLNV.org.  It will report on the intersection of new technologies (which are “early” and therefore still expensive compared to fossil fuel alternatives).  It may also highlight public policies intended to shepard the new technologies across the “Valley of [Financing] Death” to a point where innovations and economies of scale can make them cost-competitive with fossil-fuel-based alternatives.