ATTN TO THE SALES DEPARTMENT
RE: PURCHASE OF SOLAR PANELS GEN SETS ETC
We are a Company in uganda dealing in the above mentioned items .
For that matter we would like to get a price quotation C&F KENYA Iinternational air port.
Avail us with the price in US$ to enable us give you our order. we are required to supply them to an organisation here in Uganda (we won a tender to supply these items for a period of 3 years.
We hope ouR request will meet your kind approval and avail us with the requested information as soon as you are ready with it.
Thanks
GODFREY LAMBART
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[JR: That is not a discussion. We invented the "first practical solar cells." Other people invented impractical ones. Congrats to them!]

A. shop around for the cheapest treatment and then go with waving magnets over your head because it costs less than surgery? or do you

B. decide what you want, do it, and then pay whatever it costs?

(This is leaving out C. get insurance ahead of time and don’t worry about the cost at the time, because it’s too late for that if you have cancer and put off insurance).

Similarly, Yugos and BMWs will both get you places, but no one looks at both and buys the Yugo because it’s cheaper.

Surgery and magnets, like Yugos and BMWs, are NOT THE SAME PRODUCTS. Coal, oil and nuclear vs conservation, solar and wind are also NOT THE SAME PRODUCTS! Fossil/nukes will get you energy, cancer, reduced democracy and the end of civilization…while solar/wind/conserv. will get you energy and NOT. when you are a fabulously wealthy society as we are, you figure out what you need and then pay whatever it costs.

(1) Politicians and the public are unaware that anything is wrong. We hear constantly about American ingenuity as the key to our economic recovery, as if there were a nurturing environment here for innovation, which is not true any more.

(2) Big business hates innovation (”disruptive” technology = obsolete inventory), and big business owns enough lawmakers to make life difficult for those who want to develop new solutions to climate problems. A “small business” is defined by federal law as having less than 500 employees, so breaks intended for real small business go to what most people would consider big business. Why is there no microbusiness category, say 20 employees or less? That is where innovation will be coming from. Taxes and paperwork and other federal requirements appropriate to big business are a crushing burden for the microbusiness.

(3) Venture capitalists, and angel investors, will not look at any enterprise which is not already shipping product, and they expect 10 times their money back after two years. So technology development startup money, to get through the Valley of Death, is not available in America unless you have some product that requires minimal manufacturing, like software.

(4) Government grants support pure academic research in exotic froniers of particle physics, etc., which does not help with climate change technology development. Applied science is held in low regard, while string theory and pure science is the ticket to academic advancement. Technology transfer out of the labs is not working, and mission-driven science is resisted as an infringement of academic freedom, so America’s abandoned inventions are adopted by foreign competitors.

(5) We scorn the inventor and exalt the Wall Street banker. So what do you expect to happen?

This also suggests Germany has misplaced priorities:
‘Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) is pushing for the construction of new coal-fired power plants in Germany. “We need eight to twelve new coal plants if we want to get off of nuclear energy,” Gabriel said…‘
http://translate.google.com/ translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.news-adhoc.com%2Fgabriel-betont-notwendigkeit-neuer-kohlekraftwerke-idna2009031322122%2F&sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8