Comments on: Green investment does create jobs

By: Make Money

Make Money — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:59:15 +0000

Very nice.

By: msn nickleri

msn nickleri — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:18:48 +0000

v33 of 35 sectors exprience reduced output in a green world. This document isn’t speculation and/or advocacy…it’s real numbers-crunching by people who know their stuff.

By: bill

bill — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:07:24 +0000

Horsesh#@$!

Look at pp.162-165 of this EPA analysis of LIeberman-Warner…

http://www.epa.gov/ climatechange/ downloads/ s2191_EPA_Analysis.pdf

33 of 35 sectors exprience reduced output in a green world. This document isn’t speculation and/or advocacy…it’s real numbers-crunching by people who know their stuff.

By: Jim Bullis

Jim Bullis — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:32:54 +0000

red,

Your observation is right. I am referring to something like the XPRIZE for cars, except it needs to be an activity that is given much more support.

Problems include (1) The major auto companies are not as yet interested, (2) competition entrants are self funded projects, and
(3) the “mainstream” category gets most attention and this requires near production status which is not realistic for self funded entrants.

My sense of the problem is that a bigger activity is needed, perhaps something with large industry or government sponsorship would be appropriate in the present environment.

(Miastrada is my project, and though it has no immediated prospect for financial gain, I have a potential financial interest in it.)

By: Jim Bullis

Jim Bullis — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:15:02 +0000

Reported in the Economist was that 40 wind projects in UK have been rejected due to the interference of the wind turbines on air traffic control radar. They discussed an effort to provide an electronic fix for this which seems ulikely (my evaluation) to succeed.

This might be the reason BP is backing out of UK projects in favor of US projects. In the US there is a lot more room which makes avoiding interference effects a more manageable task.

By: Peter Sinclair

Peter Sinclair — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:31:18 +0000

so, within 3 days of the election, an immediate bump by giant players to the
US wind industry.
This is the leading edge of a gigantic wave.

By: mauri pelto

mauri pelto — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:40:11 +0000

The BBC was reporting yesterday that both Shell and BP are diverting additional resources to develop wind power in the US. The timing of the announcement from both corporations seems to have been timed to the election. They had a plan, and was waiting to see who would win. BP is pulling funding from offshore wind projects in the UK and investing that money in the US.
http://www.bp.com/ sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9025014&contentId=7046507#7166853
Very interesting. I look forward to the role of alternative energy in the stimulus plan.

By: exusian

exusian — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:09:22 +0000

Ye, David, that is correct.

By: David B. Benson

David B. Benson — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:26:58 +0000

exusian — I assume he was doing heat pumps with pipes in the ground?

By: exusian

exusian — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:43:23 +0000

You bet green investment creates jobs.
I recently saw an interview with a contractor specializing in residential ground-source geothermal systems and he complained that he could not hire installation staff fast enough to keep up with demand.