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A Very Smart Plan for Federal Smart Grid Grants

A little off topic, but I wonder if anyone else noticed the news from China yesterday. They intend to have 100 GW of wind power by 2020.
All in all, it bodes well for the clean energy sector.
And it should mean more battery demand.

By virtue of sheer dumb luck, I happended to pick up some shares of APWR yesterday, which besides the China wind story, had some good news of it's own today, with a new $75 million contract for cogeneration. The stock was up 18% today.

China wind energy story
uk.reuters.com/article...

"A great example of the diversity of potential applications is a new partnership that Envision Solar and Bright Automotive announced today at a capitol hill press conference. They're planning a nationwide network of solar powered charging stations for PHEVs that will use Axion's batteries for the storage function."

There was also some news about coming up with a common plug design for EVs and PHEVs to connect to 440 volt quick charging stations.

I was just reading an article on Enersys at Zacks. The ENS spokesman said they were interested in aquisitions. Are you at all afraid that an Enersys would try to buy out Axion? Or have they set up lots of barriers to that?

10 Solid, Clean Companies Ready for Stimulus, And 5 That Aren't

The comments about footing the bill are misleading.
The Google plan shows an overall economic gain .

Another study showed a slight loss in GDP. The equivalant of reaching $23 trillion GDP in April rather than in January, of some year in the 2020s.

It's ok to give $40 billion a year to oil companies though, right?
That's a conservative estimate. One estimate is $84 billion/year.
Coal gets $3 billion a year.
nuclear is subsidised at 4-8Cents /kWh

The Green New Deal: Stocks That Stand to Benefit

Robert Nabloid

"I think if you take a closer look at the New Deal, you would see the only reason we came out of that recession was a world war. The New Deal didn't really help things... "

That is revisionist history at it's worst. The reason is took WW2 to finally pull the country out of the depression was because of how deep the depression was, not because the New Deal wasn't working.
It was the new deal policies that led to the growing middle class in the fifties and sixties. Some would like to go back to the robber barron days that brought about the depression to begin with. We have almost achieved that under Reaganomics, which has left behind 80% of Americans over the past 25 years.

Seven Companies Profiting From Obama's 'New' New Deal

It never ceases to amaze me the ridiculous statements made by ideologues on the right. The don't get that they are the extremists.
To rewrite history, making claims that FDR was a bad president are beyond rubbish. Those claims are categorically untrue.
Maybe if you had been there when millions of citizens cheered FDR, when the nation as a whole adored him, you would have a different perspective.
It is no accident that he was elected three times. He not only instituted measures which helped milliions of workers have some self respect as well as make a living during the depression.
He improved the infrastructure in a big big way. The depression didn't immediately go away as a result of his actions, because of the depth of the economic contraction, not because his policies were wrong or ineffective. That's why it took WW2 to bring it to an end. Then he donned the hat of commander in chief and famously led the country with inspiration and strength to a victory in WW2

Sure he wasn't perfect and made some mistakes. Social security, a labor movement, the SEC, the GI bill, th FDIC,
and many other programs that led to the great growth of the middle class of workers in the 50s and 60s were hallmarks of his leadership.

You extremists on the right, would be calling Dwight Eisenhower a socialist if he were alive today. Yes the Allied Commander of Europe actually had the temerity to speak up for the interests of working people. And you would be calling him unAmerican for speaking out against the dangers of the military industrial complex.
Your ideology blinds you to common sense. You are so blinded by your ideology that science is a communist plot to many of you.
You are so out of step with where the American public is that you are under the delusion that it is liberals who are too extreme. From where you are looking at things, way out there on the extreme right, everything looks red or pink. Americans are predominantly liberal despite the claims that Republican talking heads keep making that Ameicans are center right. It just isn't so.
The recent election indicates the same.
Conservatives have done a good job a branding the word liberal as a four letter word. As a result, when asked if they are liberals, most people are afraid to say yes. But if you ask them how they feel about individual issues, something like 70% answer with opinions that are decidedly liberal. They have bought into the rights fascination with labels. Everytime anyone proposes anything that isn't a giveaway to the rich, those on the right are ready can't wait to throw out those old red baiting labels. I guess it's easier than thinking.
If not for the policies of FDR, we would have absolutely no worker's rights, no unemployment, not sick pay, no vacations, no retirement, no GI bill, no federal loan programs for housing, and would still be working 12 hour days six or seven days a week for lousy pay in dangerous conditions.
But wait. the days of the robber barrons are back. We now, thanks to Reaganomics, have the worst distribution of wealth since 1929. Working wages have actually gone down while the rich have been getting fat on our labor. Labor is the source of wealth, not capital. Capital is the result of wealth. Labor is the engine of the economy. Nothing is worth anything without labor. It only makes sense that labor should get a fair share of the pie. Republican economics have killed the American dream. They have killed off organized labor and are responsible for $9 trilliion of the $10 trillion federal deficit. It is their deregulation that brought about the Savings and Loan scandal and the current credit mess.

Regressive tax schemes have never worked and never will. Top down economics is criminal.

Investing in renewable energy and conservation is the only thing that will save our economy. It will kill 4 birds with one stone, economy, environment, energy and national security. Oil is ruining our economy and our environment and making us less secure.

We won't be "gambling" on renewable energy as Gary Lucido says. I would advise him to get informed because he doesn't have a clue what he is talking about. Get informed and stop making statements about things you are completely ignorant about. You have bought into the propaganda that says renewable energy can't power the country. That is categorically not true. Here are some websites where you might learn something.

www.sciam.com/article....

www.setamericafree.org...

www.pluginpartners.org/

www.repoweramerica.org/

energysolutionswecanbe...

www.salon.com/news/fea...

Think nuclear is the answer? Think again.
www.theleaneconomyconn...

www.cleanwisconsin.org...

Nuclear power is not sustainable in any way shape or form.
You are being fooled if you believe otherwise.

Global Warming Up to a Hydrogen Economy

panseyed Your idea that global warming is just a natural phenomenon is a skeptic argument that has been debunked repeatedly. Your opinion is at odds with the tens of thousands of climate scientists from all over the world, and at odds with the third assessment by the IPCC, which has been called the most thoroughly peer reviewed scientific document in the history of science. If you don't think that is evidence enough, what do you think would be