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Show us bags of money, California
February 21, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"They've been handing out bags of money and calling it a feed-in tariff. People think that they want a feed-in tariff, but what they really want is those bags of money."
— Adam Browning, executive director of California's Vote Solar Initiative, comparing Germany's feed-in tariff to the state's new feed-in tariff (story »)
Why bother?
February 17, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"On the whole, the evidence is mixed; the evidence would show there's a weak correlation at best."
— Jasmin Ansar, manager of environmental policy at PG&E, on whether corporate responsibility initiatives translate into economic benefits. On a panel at Google in Mountain View, CA, Feb 13th, 2008.
Gore co-opted by petroleum industry
February 8, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Calling the study 'simplistic,' as biofuel interests have, doesn’t eliminate the inconvenient truth."
— Charles T. Drevna of the U.S. National Petrochemical and Refiners' Association on a study claiming converting land to biofuel production can actually speed global warming(full story »)
Silly President, silly President!
January 30, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"For him to call for this is just silly."
— Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University professor, on U.S. President George Bush's cleantech fund announced this week (full story »)
Megawatts in them thar hills
January 24, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"It's like drilling for oil below where the others drill."
— Wind Harvest International CEO Kevin Wolf on his co.'s new vertical axis wind turbines, designed to nest under larger ones (full story »)
Sick of solar panels and wind turbines
January 17, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Consumers are holding their noses to take medicine they perceive to taste awful but is necessary to bring the fever down."
— Dana Cogar, EcoAlign, on consumer survey finding clean technologies unattractive (full story »)
What cost, biofuels?
December 18, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
[Turning food crops into fuel is] "a crime against humanity."
— Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, calling for a five-year moratorium on biofuel production, quoted by Canada's Globe & Mail
And in an unusual twist...
December 13, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"I don’t subscribe to the climate change theory ... I'm in business to make money, and that's what we have to drive towards or we won’t be here to change climate."
— Tim Teich, Global Solar sales and marketing VP (context »)
Oil's well that ends well
December 5, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"I think we're only seeing $100 a barrel oil because there's a concerted effort to keep the price down."
— Dr. Yogi Goswami, former President, International Solar Energy Society, keynoting the ThinkEquity ThinkGreen conference in San Francisco
Vinod Coal-sla
November 15, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"I’m a pragmentalist, not an environmentalist. We have to do the things that make the most difference, not the most ideal solutions."
— Vinod Khosla on why he'd pick nuclear plants over coal, and why environmentalists should be blamed for global warming (full story »)
Yummy - not
November 9, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"People don't want to drink water that tastes like a pool, or a dead fish."
— John Kaestle, CEO of water company HaloSource, slamming traditional chlorine and iodine disinfection at an investor conference in San Francisco (full story »)
