We Europeans also need to get better at nurturing our own clean tech industry.

欧洲人还需要更好地培育我们自己的清洁技术产业。

But they were developing apps and they were doing different financial startups and really no one was working on clean tech and certainly not clean tech hardware.

但他们当时正在开发应用程序，在做不同的金融初创事业，实际上没有人在从事清洁技术行业，当然也没有清洁技术的硬件设施。

Now, the reason for that crash in clean tech is complicated.

现在，清洁技术崩溃的原因很复杂。

But then, just as quickly as the clean tech wave had started, it began to collapse.

但随后，就像清洁技术浪潮开始一样迅速， 它开始崩溃。

Companies across the clean tech sector suddenly didn't look like such great investments.

清洁技术领域的公司突然间看起来不像是如此伟大的投资。

So Nicholas looked at business schools that had a focus on clean tech and entrepreneurship, but he had other criteria too.

因此， 尼古拉斯考察了专注于清洁技术和创业精神的商学院，但他也有其他标准。

But, accelerated by the Great Recession of 2008, climate tech, clean tech came to be seen as a string of investment failures.

但是，在 2008 年大衰退的推动下，气候技术、清洁技术开始被视为一系列投资失败。

The current boom is sort of a second wave, and the first wave, clean tech 1.0, as it's now called, didn't end well.

当前的繁荣有点像第二波，而第一波，即现在所谓的清洁技术 1.0，并没有很好地结束。

There's a very well-known MIT report that estimates over half the $25bn invested in that first wave of clean tech was never recouped.

麻省理工学院的一份非常著名的报告估计， 在第一波清洁技术浪潮中投资的 250 亿美元中， 有一半以上从未收回。

One of the biggest names is the UK's Royal Mint, which is teaming up with Canadian clean tech start-up Excir to harvest electronic waste.

最著名的公司之一是英国皇家造币厂，它正在与加拿大清洁技术初创公司 Excir 合作收集电子垃圾。

Silicon Valley had already seen one software tech boom, and many hoped that clean tech would produce another one, including the prolific investor John Doerr.

硅谷已经见证了一场软件技术热潮，许多人希望清洁技术能产生另一场热潮，包括多产的投资者约翰杜尔。

Eric Toone from Breakthrough Energy has another explanation for the crash of clean tech 1.0, and he says that this new wave will be different.

Breakthrough Energy 的埃里克·图恩 (Eric Toone) 对清洁技术 1.0 的崩溃有另一种解释，他说这波新浪潮将有所不同。

To the resulting cacophony of national schemes, the EU has recently added a few bloc-wide grant programmes, such as InvestEU and Innovation Fund, to support clean tech.

对于由此产生的国家计划的杂音，欧盟最近增加了一些集团范围的赠款计划，例如 InvestEU 和创新基金，以支持清洁技术。

There was a very exuberant period of investment where I think that we attempted to just map clean tech on to the tech investing model that was so successful in the last couple of decades of the last century.

有一个非常繁荣的投资时期， 我认为我们试图将清洁技术映射到在上个世纪最后几十年非常成功的技术投资模型上。