John Lounsbury

Clean Energy Shopping List: 5 Stocks with Technology to Improve Grid Reliability

Tom - - -

Itron has two European competitors who have footholds in the US and Canadian utility market. These are Landis + Gyr (Switzerland) and Elster (Germany). Both are privately held. I like Itron's prospects, but keeping track of how they fare against these two competitors will be important. At the present time, I am aware that Landis + Gyr is a supplier for TXU Energy and Landis + Gyr is doing business with Toronto Hydroelectric.

Five American Innovators to Buy During the Current Downturn

GripperDon - - - Please observe the warning and keep writing (cleaned up stuff). You are addressing important imbalances in our business system. We have evolved into a welfare society for the poor and a welfare society for the rich and powerful, supported by the 70-80% in the middle. The middle will keep stretching until it breaks if we do not find a way to improve things. We have government policies that protect the entrenched interests and do not encourage entreprenures sufficiently. One might argue that deregulation of the finacial sector was done to encourage financial entreprenureship, but I would argue that it simply created space for the established financial system to create fraud.

How about a system that allows inventions to compete for funding based on merit rather than on the basis of how little they will disturb the establishment. I worked most of my career in a large international corporation and saw it do great damage to itself and society because the leaders chose to protect their vested interests rather than accept and promote new technology that eventually proved to be world changing. Unfortunately, this happens all too often.