(AP) After a successful run of high-tech and computer-related innovation, Israel is focusing its ambitions on becoming a world leader in alternative energy. On a 10-meter stretch of a north Israel highway, the firm Innowattech tested out its system of generators installed under roads that convert the weight and motion of passing vehicles into electricity. Eight Israeli companies have been named in each of the past two years to the Global Cleantech 100 - a respected industry barometer of the top 100 companies worldwide. When General Electric Corp. handed out $100,000 grants in July as part of its international challenge to companies to build the next-generation power grid, two of the five winners were Israeli companies.
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