Discussion On President Obama

[justintempler]

But this one part I know. America is currently the hands down leader in developing green technology. No other country is even close to us right now. So the world decides to get serious, we would be HUGE benificiaries of it.

not for long....

http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/ar...hnology-leader

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=121512377

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1260...LEFTTopStories

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Chinese wind-turbine makers are starting to export. In October, Shenyang Power Group struck a deal to supply 240 turbines to one of the largest wind-farm projects in the U.S., a 36,000-acre development in Texas.

China already has a 30% share of the global market for photovoltaic solar panels used to generate electricity. Solar-power panel makers, including Suntech Power Holdings Co., Yingli Green Energy and Trina Solar Ltd., export most of their product to Europe and the U.S., contributing to a 30% drop in world solar-power prices.

Chinese competition is forcing rivals to shift production. U.S. Evergreen Solar Inc. said it will move its assembly line from Massachusetts to China. General Electric Co. said it will shut a facility in Delaware. BP PLC's solar unit said this spring it would stop output in Maryland and rely on Chinese suppliers instead

If we don't get our shit together all those green jobs will be moving to China and you can say goodbye to another source of good paying high tech jobs here in the United Sates.

[wa3zrm]

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[sgreger1]

But this one part I know. America is currently the hands down leader in developing green technology. No other country is even close to us right now. So the world decides to get serious, we would be HUGE benificiaries of it.

not for long....

http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/ar...hnology-leader

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=121512377

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1260...LEFTTopStories

...
Chinese wind-turbine makers are starting to export. In October, Shenyang Power Group struck a deal to supply 240 turbines to one of the largest wind-farm projects in the U.S., a 36,000-acre development in Texas.

China already has a 30% share of the global market for photovoltaic solar panels used to generate electricity. Solar-power panel makers, including Suntech Power Holdings Co., Yingli Green Energy and Trina Solar Ltd., export most of their product to Europe and the U.S., contributing to a 30% drop in world solar-power prices.

Chinese competition is forcing rivals to shift production. U.S. Evergreen Solar Inc. said it will move its assembly line from Massachusetts to China. General Electric Co. said it will shut a facility in Delaware. BP PLC's solar unit said this spring it would stop output in Maryland and rely on Chinese suppliers instead

If we don't get our shit together all those green jobs will be moving to China and you can say goodbye to another source of good paying high tech jobs here in the United Sates.

This is absolutely true. This is something I don't get about US politicians is they don't seem to understand that we are in a fierce competition with places like China. So at Copenhagen they are trying to get us to give billions to other countries to help them go green, China manages to get itself on the list as a "developing nation" so they can benefit from it.

We need to focus our attention back home and dump some money into R&D so we can be the leaders in this thing, because it's a young industry, but whoever makes it to the top first will own a good share of the market for many years It's just like when we first discovered oil, you see a lot of the same companies around today. We need to be the first ones to get in on this green gold.