The New Greens Like It Big

The green view based on small sources and market power will give way to one based on scale and subsidies.

Whereas the old view of green tech was based on many small, decentralized sources of power and a green economy that harnessed the power of the marketplace, the new version will rely more heavily on regulation and subsidies. It will also embrace the wisdom, true in most of the energy business, that bigger is better for weathering economic storms. Full Story »

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Dec. 4, 2008

Considering the dramatic shift this opinion piece is suggesting, its notably lacking in hard evidence. To be sure there are some interesting ideas presented here (e.g. the economies scale issue), but for the most part this argument has already been presented in other publications (see links)

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