At Innovatrs we get to chat with a number of interesting VC’s and funds across the US and Europe. Many of them are all hot and bothered about green and clean tech startups. They’re scouring solar, wind, wave, agriculture and other energy innovators for the next big, er, well, Enron!

Enron? How uncool is that? It doesn’t quite have the same ring as saying we’re looking for the next Google.

But the opportunity is massive. Not just to build a next generation energy leader, but to really save the planet at the same time. For investors and entrepreneurs alike it is a rare spot of hope dashed with big risk, big dice, big return opportunity. I just wish the media would spend less time barking on about blow-out bankers and social media chatterings and a little more of their bitewaves on the clean energy revolution. It’s so much more interesting.

Countless billions of Dollars are going into it from venture and sovereign funds throughout the world. This is a global opportunity with global investors chasing start-ups spread throughout the planet. The trend could benefit any entrepreneur from any country and does not necessitate a Sand Hill Road address. Clean energy start-ups are just as likely to come from Denver, Detroit, Delhi or Dubai. Anywhere really.

The 21st Century’s gold rush is on but it’s entrepreneurs and investors, with their armies of PR and marketing folk, need to get better at explaining their projects and technologies in plain English so the journo’s can splatter our news sites with as much hype and excitement on clean breakthroughs as they do covering Apple or Facebook gizmo launches.

Calling all clean tech entrepreneurs!