Comments on: Obama Energy Plan and 5 Business Opportunities It Supports

By: Peter Lionel Griffiths

Peter Lionel Griffiths — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:15:13 +0000

And then there is “Electricity From Water” in the Alternate Energy category
http://cleanelectricitycompany.com – its a new discovery of a Green Energy Source.

By: DH

DH — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:15:16 +0000

Better Place’s (”BP”) idea is the most foolish business plan ever. It is premised on the assumption that battery technology will not evolve and improve. Battery technology is technology. With time, technology gets better and costs less. Look at processors, LCD TVs, etc. Investment into battery technology has been growing exponentially since the advent of laptops, cellphones, PDAs. Batteries can already get us 100 miles. How much improvement do we need before BP’s “recharging/swapping stations” become redundant? BP plans to have its infrastructure set up in Australia by 2012. As per normal delays, that means it will actually be set up by 2014-16. There are no plans for the USA. So, at the earliest, infrastructure would be set up here by 2018. That is a decade away. Where do you think battery technology will be in a decade? It in all likelihood, it will be in a place that makes BP’s charging stations redundant before they even get truly started. This is not to mention that plug-in electric-gas hybrids would make all that BP infrastructure redundant. All BP is trying to do is get into the market early to create a electricity network monopoly. When consumers realize that their batteries are good enough so that the network is redundant, BP’s monopoly will disintegrate.

By: Scott Badenoch

Scott Badenoch — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:46:46 +0000

Fabulous article, Craig. It’s great to bring the Obama vision down to tangible gains in market sectors and business models. I’d also include carbon sequestration, especially associated with Clean Coal (still a misnomer without sequestration) as an area sure to boom. And algae based biofuels…
Further, the web2.0 campaign that Obama ran will certainly forecasts a boon to companies like mine (Creative Citizen) and others in the space helping to push forward energy efficiency amongst the populous.
Absolutely exciting time for we green people…

By: Brewse

Brewse — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:47:04 +0000

Grt – let’s get to work – we are looking input to localized approached to sharing information about opportunities, workshops, seminars and access to the people and companies doing it. http://www.otoyk.com

By: Brewse

Brewse — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:46:52 +0000