Oct 07 2008
Solar Industry Shines Bright
Economic turmoil aside, one of the recent silver green linings is the passage of tax incentives for renewable energy development. Clearly the solar industry has much to celebrate, including the flurry of exciting announcements issued today:
- Gonzales Winery in Monterey County will soon be home to the world's largest winery solar power energy system. Sized at one megawatt, the system will be installed by Constellation Wines U.S. and will meet 50 percent of the winery's total energy requirements.
- The San Francisco Chronicle's David Baker reports on a California-based solar company that's shaking up the solar industry. Solyndra exited stealth mode today with a radically different approach to solar (think tubes), $600 million in funding and $1.2 billion in customer contracts.
- New thin-film manufacturer Konarka opened a new manufacturing plant today in Massachusetts that will have a production capacity of one gigawatt per year. Click here for the New York Times' report on the effort that is repurposing equipment from an old Polaroid printing facility.
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This is being rather generous to Lutz.
1. The "Volt", in no small part, will be targeted as a product to people who care about energy and environmental issues. These people don't embrace Lutz' antideluvian concepts of rejecting science. How responsible is it for a GM executive to be rejecting the science?
2. As well, Lutz didn't exactly sound too enthusiastic about the Volt itself.
3. And, GM public communications has 'defended' Lutz in rather absurd ways.
-A Siegel
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This article is right on - small businesses have a huge role to play in sustainability. Not only do they add up in aggregate, but many small businesses operate in industries that can have a significant environmental impact depending on the exact practices, like dry cleaners, auto repair shops, etc. Green is also starting to affect the bottom line more and more, customers are increasingly voting with their feet for more sustainable businesses as can be seen from the growth of sites like http://www.ecovian.com. This is also a huge opportunity for small businesses to leapfrog their bigger brothers by being more agile in adopting these measures.
-Emily
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Great entry, Katie. Love the level of detail you managed to get in there! Probably won't be able to compete with coal and oil any time the next decade, but definitely a great technology to look into! Keep it up :)
-Rune (Norway)
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