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The Smart Grid Gets Its Own ETF

I've owned ITC for a while now, glad to see it's included! While it doesn't look perfect, I like the fact that at least it's not just market cap weighted.

Evergreen Solar Plans to Move U.S. Panel Production to China

Dang that sucks, more jobs lost to China! Yea, they're going to restart the plant in Mass. if demand picks up......unless they can secure financing for another plant in China where they can just produce them cheaper! I fear for the future of this country, I really do!

China Wind Systems: Poised for More Growth

Sounds interesting. I'm not investing directly in foreign stocks, but if you could give your readers a heads up when it moves to the Nasdaq, I would appreciate it!

Dow’s Solar Shingles: A Solar Product People May Actually Buy

Dang, and I just put a stupid "normal" roof on my house this summer! Oh well......there's always the garage!

Solar Panel Coatings by Honeywell and Dow Corning: The Hot New Thing

How much more efficient does this make the panels? 1 or 2%? Or is it even more than that?

Grid Connectivity: Invest in Alternative Energy's Missing Link

You forgot about ITC! It's pretty much a pure play on expanding the power grid, much like PWR.

A123's IPO Could Open the Floodgates for Greentech Sector

So when is it going to start trading, on Sept. 23?

PHEVs and EVs: Plugging into a Lump of Coal

What about people who have solar panels on their roof and generate all their own electricity? These are going to be the kind of people who first buy electric cars and PHEV like the Volt. You're making a big assumption that people who buy these vehicles will all get their power from the grid.

Popping the Clean Energy Fund Bubble Will Set the Stage for Future Growth

I don't think that graph accurately represents a bubble, because it doesn't represent money, it's just the number of ETFs and mutual funds devoted to renewable energy. And I'd say under 20 total is still a pretty small number. Some of these ETFs are pretty small (net assets in the funds less than $100M) and not very liquid. If you're trying to show that not all of these funds will survive, well yea, I agree with you there. But if you're trying to show that the renewable energy sector is somehow overvalued, I don't think that chart works at all. Show me something with the amount of $$ in these renewable energy funds or something, not just the number of funds.

How PHEVs and EVs Will Sabotage America's Drive for Energy Independence

All this guy does anymore is bash companies like GM and Nissan, apparently two companies he's not invested in.

Your thoughts are appreciated, but might be respected a little more if you weren't writing the SAME THING on this web site every other day!

Who knows if the PHEV technology will eventually be a success or not, but you are clearly rooting for it to fail before it's even begun! I for one am rooting for GM and others to win on this one because they're actually doing something that's in the country's interests and trying to get us off of foreign oil.

Will Ocean Power Technologies Surge Forwards?

I looked into these guys a while ago, and there seemed to be at least 10 other private companies that were trying to do the same thing. Too much competition in my opinion. Plus it looks like the technology is not quite ready for the big time yet. I wish them luck, I hope they succeed, but I'm not putting any money in their stock.

GM's Volt Could Earn a 230 MPG Rating

Unless of course the owner of the Volt also has solar panels or small wind turbine on his roof. Which in the first few years, those are the kind of people that are going to buy the Volt.

And although coal is dirtier than oil, at least it's produced here in the US instead of Saudi Arabia!


On Aug 11 11:11 AM Stockpikr wrote:

> Actually the mileage per gallon in the first 40 miles is infinite,
> since it's running on zero gas. It is instead running on about 25
> pounds of coal!

GM's Chevy Volt Should Help Recapture Market Share

A lot of people like to bash all the auto makers, especially GM, for all the mistakes they've made in the past, but I really think that a car like the Volt is the future. That $40,000 price tag is not counting the $7500 tax credit the govt. is going to give you, so the price really comes down to $32,500, which is still high, but a lot more doable. For everyone who thinks it's a waste of money for the govt. to be giving away all these tax rebates for fuel efficient vehicles, would you rather have people continue to purchase gas guzzlers and keep sending all of their money to OPEC? $7500 may seem like a lot, but I bet the US makes it back with a lowered trade deficit because we'd be spending less to import oil. Not to mention places like Iran and Saudi Arabia are going to have less money from us to give to Al Quida. That's a good thing in my book.

You guys can bash GM all you want, but more than likely there's going to be a Chevy Volt in my garage within the next few years!

Natural Gas: Another Great Thing from a Lobby Near You

Yes, it's a shame, but big business pretty much rules the decision making in Washington, and us little guys don't really have much of a say in anything.

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

What about just improving the transmission capabilities of the grid? Look at ITC for this.