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Solars Should Bounce Today

I got bored reading all the comments. In the end it's all irrelevant. The point Jack makes is clear enough, US goverment now accepts the idea of climate change too. Wel ladiladilaa, after all the BS, "poof" we accept climate change. Germany will continue to subsidize alternative energy, and they already did so for years. Energy resources like coal, uranium, gas and oil are all increasing in price, and energy demand itself is fastly increasing along with globalization. And we are all dependant for a large part on foreign country's to supply us with energy resources. World energy demand is hughe, there is just such an hughe space for alternative energy to grow in.

Some people identify alternative energy as a "bubble", others as the next bubble. It is not and it won't be a bubble neither, but it will sure look like one if you will see the stellar growth the alternative energy sector will have the next decade. Go read some income statements of established solar and wind energy company's, the average year to year growth is just ammazing.

Many people identify alternative energy as "the next big thing". Psycholigy is a large part of investing, and here you have a wide basis of people who are convinced of the potential of alternative energy. So am i, and IMO, rightly so. It strikes me that an fairly irrelevant 2008'ish little crisis has sown so many doubt among alternative energy investors, i do not doubt the long term potential of my stocks just because their stock has a few bad weeks.

The future is great for alternative energy, and noone needs some Wall street idiots to tell them otherwise and play some manipulation games. Wall street aint the center of the earth, and it has made HUGHE mistakes before. Atleast Germany has now an alternative energy sector creating ample new jobs, the USA on the other hand has a lot of empty houses. The antics of some of the SA editors here are just hilarious, i visit this site to have a good laugh for the most part. The amount of irony to spot is just excessive.

The devide in mentality across the pond clearly is quite deep. But Europe is in a far better shape these days, heck investors these days look to US based company's with a strong foot in Europe for revenue growth. It's utterly remarkable how much the world has changed in the last years, and especially so for the USA in relation to the rest of the world.Reality shows these days that a hughe amount of presumptions ingrained in the US mentality on various issue's have proven to be utterly wrong and shortminded, and it becomes time that the USA gets a new perspective on modern issue's like climate change and energy needs wich most other modern nations of this world have already accepted long before the USA. These issue's now form a large part of the political agenda of current presidential candidate's.

But what really needs to change is the mentality of certain groups withing US society. The Bush administration has been utterly ruining for the USA, but it remains so that it was a large part of USA society that supported Bush in ellection, in his actions and in his warmongering. It's ironic that so many US people now complain so much about Bush, in large part due to the war and the ramifications, while more than 95% supported for the Bush administration in the runup towards the Iraq war in a surge of Patriotism. Clearly, US society is gullible for lies and propaganda, and you cannot blame Fox media more than their watchers. Some people just don't know what they should believe in.

In europe we don't need some meddling Wall street schmucks. We have the largest alternative energy company's in the world and damn were quite happy with them too. Alternative energy will grow for decade in Europe with the mentality at wich we work on it. In the end it's inevitable, do or "die", and the more America pospone's it, the more they will fall behind.

Wind: The Powerful Anti-Commodity

Checked myself, and 19.7 GW is correct, mind you thats for the whole world in 2007.

Wind: The Powerful Anti-Commodity

Nakedjaybird it's certainly not 19.7 mw either lol. Thats like a measel 6 Vestas turbine's .... It's deffinatly something into the GW amount. Better check again.

Wind: The Powerful Anti-Commodity

There are quite a few more pure play wind turbine makers like vestas wich have a large revenue and profit, and can be considerd established and safe. The whole wind turbine sector is a fairly safe one. Apart from vestas, there is Gamesa technologica, Repower, nordex Ag and Suzlon. Clipper is a far more risky investment in this regard, it has a large net loss.

A few European wind farmers that are establised to, like Greentech energy and EDf energies nouvelles to name a few.

But it's a good article, and it was time that Wind energy got a bit more attention on this site. It's a great sector to invest and i'm very bullish on wind energy.

An Energy Policy that Makes Cents (and Sense)

Seems like they are finaly realizing in the USA that it's 5 seconds before 12.

I thank my european leaders for having been foreseeing in this regard. Our economy is seemingly still in much better chape due to several good policy's, and were more established in alternative energy, in fact ahead of shedule even. Were already much more energy effeciant, but that can only alleviate a small part of the issue. We have more windmils than we had envisioned before 2010 now already, but we have also set the target high for wind energy until 2020 and 2030.

Even then, there is no limit to thinking what possible energy needs well have in the 21'st century. I spit on the people here talking poppulation control regulations and the like's, what an inhumane and unethical thought, borders facism IMO. Humanity needs to be able to evolve and therefore it will need increasingly more energy.

Try to have vision, vision even beyond mere peak oil issue resolvement. Im in my twenty's, i should envision 50 years ahead. I see the premature robotic dreams they had in the late 20th century come to fruitation in my lifetime, automatization is already a fast growing bussiness, rudimentary robots exist and get better. Computers evolve and decent robotic AI's are not that far in the future at this speed. Think of how much labour we could do in the future if we mobilized our potential to create an near-automated economy. Such progress would even allow us to take space economicly serious. But in the end, to enable us to evolve in this path, well need energy, lots of it, hughe amounts. Energy will be the power by wich humanity will be able to advance further. And the cheaper you can make the energy, the more effeciant the base of the economy will be in a near-automated economy.

The ultimate power of Wind and Solar is that there be virtually no limit to how much output you can get out of it. And their effeciancy can be improved for decade's to come. The cost to wind and solar power now is just a temporarily concern, and even this it's very fastly becoming a moot point. In the future wind and solar will become much more effeciant than any other energy source, to the point that it will virtually cost nothing. The world will get covered by solar panels and wind mills in the decade's to come. Theyll supply the robot's that will work for a fraction of the cost of a human trough advanced technoligy.

In the end, it won't be the country with the cheapest human labour in mass that will become the most powerfull. there is a whole new economy to create with robotics, and it will be up to the first country that takes this vision really serious that will come the fruit of being the most advanced and productionaly potent.

Beware of the Solar Stock Fad

I think you need to be an American to say this kind of stuff.

While many of you americans are driving on high oil consuming SUV's and just waste energy as it's no big deal, atleast here in europe were atleast 10 years ahead in saving our energy with all sorts of measures. Someone here mentioned this energy effeciancy, other ligtbulbs and that kind of stuff. Well i can simply say to them, it doesn't work like that over here in Europe.

Were 10 years ahead in energy saving, but living in brussels i have this very keen sense that the EU will actually expand subsidies to renewables, having read article's from top euro politicians here who all seem to hammer on solar/wind, and who all hate biofuels for the rediculous pricesurge it creates in food and such.

And it's perfectly reasonable from an EU perspective, way to many euro's flow out from the Euro zone to oil producers. And we have emmerging markets to compete with i general economics. If the EU wants to survive as an economic powerhouse in the future then it has to remain on the edge of many technoligies, and alternative energy is one of those technoligy's were were doing quite well in. It's creating jobs for us, we can make an export product of it, it lowers our energy bill, win win win situation. European wind energy is miles ahead of the rest of the world, we have all the top wind turbine manufacturers.

And it's quite simple to piont out that Europe is the largest market for all renewables, Germany on top. In fact America's own solar company's have ther majority sales in Europe. And if europe increases renewables funding then yioure point vanishes into the drain.

it only shows that Americans don't take their energy problems to serious. How else could they have lagged just so far behind Europe. The posters article here just shows that sentiment.

And to US politics. No renewal of renewables funding? Go for it! by 2020 Europe and china will dominate the renwables market. Heck youre own wind farmers aleady buy European turbine's. Keep fooling on!