In today's New York Times, Thomas Friedman spotlights American company Applied Materials and laments the country's lack of support.
Because of AM's nanotech research, CEO Mike Splinter decided to explore solar energy potentials. The result: building machines that build solar panels.
Now Applied Materials has 14 such plants.
None of them are in the U.S.
Because the U.S. does nothing to support the industry. Germany does, making solar second only to auto manufacturing in that country.
This is because the U.S. only subsidizes oil, coal and nuclear, i.e. the industries that do the most lobbying.
Even assuming that global warming is not real (and I don't), aside from nuclear, those resources are dirty and finite and "The world is on track to add another 2.5 billion people by 2050, and many will be aspiring to live high-energy lifestyles. In such a world, renewable energy - where the variable cost of your fuel, sun or wind, is zero - will be in huge demand."
Is everyone waiting for 2012 when the world supposedly ends?
Come on, people now!
Because of AM's nanotech research, CEO Mike Splinter decided to explore solar energy potentials. The result: building machines that build solar panels.
Now Applied Materials has 14 such plants.
None of them are in the U.S.
Because the U.S. does nothing to support the industry. Germany does, making solar second only to auto manufacturing in that country.
This is because the U.S. only subsidizes oil, coal and nuclear, i.e. the industries that do the most lobbying.
Even assuming that global warming is not real (and I don't), aside from nuclear, those resources are dirty and finite and "The world is on track to add another 2.5 billion people by 2050, and many will be aspiring to live high-energy lifestyles. In such a world, renewable energy - where the variable cost of your fuel, sun or wind, is zero - will be in huge demand."
Is everyone waiting for 2012 when the world supposedly ends?
Come on, people now!
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