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Green Energy Players Eager for Obama - Clean-energy advocates say it is time to get started fulfilling the presidential campaign rhetoric about boosting the use of green fuels in the United States.

To all those advocates of new energy resources - here is my suggestion from one who is often concerned with techno-economics.

Leave aside the carbon credits business- this is man made invention.

I would like all technologies to be self reliant and stand on their own merit.Unless and until we were planning a moon journey,the fact remains that we have heard too much about this and that benefit and yet there would probably will not a be a balance sheet for any PV plant or Bio Mass plant or even Wind plant.

If it is there why they do not post it on web site .

Leave aside China.

In China the govt is communist one and they can do what they like without ever bothering about the consequences to the general public . There is defacto no voice for their people like in a democracy.

If we keep providing tax cuts and benefits and the result after years are still dismal what is the point in doing it. After all tax payer has to pay for it and if there is already a recession  and no country afford it.

All those who believe in politics should ponder as to what percentage of profits being reaped , are going to new development work.

Industry shuld demand govt support not to make it economically viable but to help develop new advanced technologies.

alok misra

member photo Do you really believe with a $700 billion dollar bailout of the financial sector anyone is going to be racing to hand out new funding for renewable energy. As the gov't struggles to figure out how to get the economy going this will just be another oversold campaign promise. The burden will remain on the private sector, as it is now, to continue to justify and fund clean energy. State gov't will offer incentives where they can but even most of those are funded by Investor Owned Utility dollars.
# Posted By Michael Mayer | 11/7/08 4:50 AM | Report This Comment as Foul/Inappropriate
member photo Politics can make such decisions to remain in the good books of electorate .Economics or no economics.The effect are seen after wards. After all the present crisis came about by some one doing just this !
# Posted By Alok Misra | 11/7/08 5:55 AM | Report This Comment as Foul/Inappropriate
member photo Some state goverments are more proactive than others; for Michigan, wind energy may prevent an otherwise ineveitable economic collapse:
http://pro.energycentral.com/professional/news/pow...
# Posted By William Norquay | 11/7/08 10:26 AM | Report This Comment as Foul/Inappropriate
member photo That again brings in selective use of the technology. For some island nation if there is nothing out there but wind I would probably get the wind generator so that King can sleep in his bed without snakes rolling over for him!
But this again brings in Techno-economics.If the cost of bringing this energy to his palace is likely to result in a lifelong mortgage of his palace , he would do well to think of alternatives!
# Posted By Alok Misra | 11/13/08 10:26 AM | Report This Comment as Foul/Inappropriate
member photo Speaking of island nations, Indonesia, Malasia, the Carribean nations, Micronesia, the Phillipines, New Zealand, Tasmania and Madagascar should all be powered by tidal energy used to produce hydrogen for fueling a green economy. Get with the program, Singapore!
# Posted By William Norquay | 11/19/08 1:43 PM | Report This Comment as Foul/Inappropriate
member photo Policy makers can go on making statements but the fact is that renewable or any other source of energy can never be a replacement for conventional energy sources. Coal will continue to dominate the energy sector.

One of the comments talks about proactive measures by Michigan. I would like to quote here 'The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), points that Coal based fired plants means 293,000 jobs for Michigan alone by 2015.'. These jobs and energy independence can only be guaranteed through conventional energy source.
# Posted By Rakesh Singh | 12/1/08 11:59 PM | Report This Comment as Foul/Inappropriate
 
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