Dana Blankenhorn

Dana Blankenhorn

InvestorPlace Contributor

Expertise: Technology, Biotech, Renewable energy

Education: M.S,J. Northwestern (Medill School) 1978; B.A. Rice University, History and Political Science 1977

Awards & Accomplishments: Tech reporter since 1982, Freelance since 1983, on Internet since 1985. Created first online coverage of Internet with a magazine, Interactive Age, 1994 Co-wrote BBS Systems for Business in 1991, Wrote Guide to Field Computing in 1992 Wrote technology history now called "Living with Moore's Law" in 2001, 2010, 2021 Author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction

About Dana:
Dana Blankenhorn has been a financial journalist since 1978, a technology journalist since 1982, and an Internet journalist since 1985. He writes a Substack newsletter, Facing the Future, which covers technology, markets, and politics.

He has written a half-dozen technology books, several novels available at the Amazon Kindle store, and covered beats ranging from education to e-commerce, and from open source to renewable energy. He lives in Atlanta.

Recent Articles

Canadian Solar: Just How Canadian Is It?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Canadian Solar has extensive operations in China, and hopes to capitalize on that with a Chinese IPO next year.

JinkoSolar Won the Initial Solar Market, But Is Its Future Bright?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

By cutting costs, JinkoSolar has become a big winner for solar power and for China. But can it adapt to solar becoming a consumer product?

SolarWindow May Be the Next Generation of Solar

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

WNDW stock features a new executive team led trying to scale production of a liquid that generates electricity on windows.

First Solar: America’s Solar Champion Suddenly a Hot Stock

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

First Solar is a profitable maker of thin film solar panels, with cash on the books and growth ahead. But it may not be ready for the revolution in materials and techniques now underway.

NextEra Energy Is Doing Renewables Right

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

NextEra Energy stock is proving there's profit in owning both wind and solar projects as well as utility-scaled demand.

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