How the Economy Is Changing Clean Energy

Al writes "The economy has hit green energy technologies hard, but technologies focused on energy efficiency and clean coal are still attracting money. Over the next few years, venture capitalists say that the biggest winners in clean tech will most likely be companies with technologies that improve efficiency. Such ventures often take advantage of cheap sensors, communications hardware, and software packages to monitor and control energy use both in buildings and on the electricity grid. High-capital businesses are now more likely to succeed if they can attract foreign funding. For instance, Great Point Energy, based in Cambridge, which has developed a process for converting coal into natural gas, has attracted $100m in funding from China."

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Environmentalists won't stop till we live in caves

[tjstork]

When I come to power, I will have the government build 500 nuclear power plants, and just wave aside any environmental lawsuit with a stiff hand of nothing, and any protest with a hail of bullets.

At some point, you just have to treat environmentalists as the diseased enemies of mankind that they are. They are today's Nazis that are so hyped about purity they don't even bother to notice what they destroy to get it. Like the Nazis before, purity is not some real goal, it is emblematic of their utter hatred for people that live. Dirty jews, dirty subhumans, dirty humans... all have to be "dealt with". At the end of the day, the head of Greenpeace and Heinrich Himmler are cut from the same cloth, a bunch of freaks that look in the mirror and see humanity as a corpse infesting the earth. Death matters not to them.

Environmentalists are the enemy of all of humanity.