So you had had a big 2006 bonus...What to do with all that money?

A departure from my more anlytical postings to provide a piece of more useful/practical information for a change!

Sniffing out for clean tech investment ideas? Here's the most comprehensive listing of clean energy stocks in the market [List] that I have come across, courtesy of InvestorIdeas.com. Categories include:

• Alternative Energy Funds
• Biogas & Ethanol Stocks
• Biomass
• Clean Power Plants & Utilities
• Energy Efficiency Stocks
• Flywheel Stocks
• Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Stocks
• Geothermal Stocks
• Green Certificates - Carbon Credit Stocks
• Micro Turbines Stocks
• Photovoltaic & Solar Stocks
• Recycling Technologies Stocks
• Renewable Energy Investment - General
• Sustainable & Electric Transportation
• Wave & Tidal Power Stocks
• Wind Power & Wind Energy Stocks

The list is daunting, and not every stock is "investment-grade," so do your research! More over, many are traded on "pink sheets" / OTC, and hence are thinly traded and do not provide as much liquidity to trade in and out, if you're that kind of investor.

That said, I think the solar sector is going to be a huge winner in 2007 because of state legislation across the U.S. Biofuels will be a hit as well, again for the same political reasons, but I personally question the sustainability of many biofuel technolgies...I will talk about this in a future post.

Another prediction is that Bush will be pushing nucelar and plug-in hybrid technologies in his State of the Union speech at the end of month, sending counters in these areas north.

However virtuous the reasons, I'm bracing for a historic year for the clean tech sector, and I know I'm not the only one.