Venture Capitalists Back Away from Clean Energy - Technology Review
Dozens recently stopped making initial investments in clean technology companies, according to Dow Jones Venture Source.Tucson's Solon to turn off solar manufacturing, lay off 60
Solar module manufacturer Solon Corp. will lay off 60 local workers as it shuts down its production facility in Tucson, the company said Monday.Seattle's 'green jobs' program a bust - seattlepi.com
Last year, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced the city had won a coveted $20 million federal grant to invest in weatherization. The unglamorous work of insulating crawl spaces and attics had emerged as a silver bullet in a bleak economy – able to create jobs and shrink carbon footprint – and the announcement came with great fanfare.Brace yourself for another La Niña winter, Seattle | Seattle's Big Blog - seattlepi.com
McGinn had joined Vice President Joe Biden in the White House to make it. It came on the eve of Earth Day. It had heady goals: creating 2,000 living-wage jobs in Seattle and retrofitting 2,000 homes in poorer neighborhoods.
But more than a year later, Seattle's numbers are lackluster. As of last week, only three homes had been retrofitted and just 14 new jobs have emerged from the program. Many of the jobs are administrative, and not the entry-level pathways once dreamed of for low-income workers. Some people wonder if the original goals are now achievable.
it boils down to this: We could be in for another long, cold winter.
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The media and advocates of alternative energy sources always use the misleading term "clean" to describe solar and wind energies when those technologies are anything but clean due to their extreme inefficiency, unreliability, equipment production processes, and high maintenance. If a major media organization did some actual investigation of the "cleanliness" of solar and wind power, we could be closer to tossing those energy sources back on the pile of failures where they'll eventually end up again anyway. Just like he did with ethanol, even Al Gore will one day tell us wind and solar were a mistake that he regrets backing.
Better yet, why doesn't some major media organization investigate solar and wind technologies from soup to nuts and prove to us how "clean", practical, and efficient they are? The fact that they haven't ever done it speaks volumes.
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