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Meow!
November 7, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Getting auto manufacturers to agree on one battery type, [like] in Agassi's model, is sort of like herding cats."
— ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read on competitor Project Better Place's electric car charging scheme(full story »)
Dropped a little cash?
October 25, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"We're picking thousand dollar bills off the floor."
— Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott, quoted by Sr. director Rand Waddoups announcing a cleantech outreach initiative with the Cleantech Group at the Cleantech Forum in Toronto (full story »)
Remember to clean under your fingernails
October 19, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"You may have noticed when you stick your hand in a pile of manure that it's warm."
— David Wheat of GCF Associates on a waste-to-energy panel in San Francisco, on bacterial decomposition of manure
Fightin' words from Cape Wind
October 15, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Is it going to have any material effect in the end on whether or not the project is built, or when it is built? I don't think it will, no."
— Mark Rodgers, spokesman for Cape Wind Associates, on the Cape Cod Commission's denial of its undersea cable application.
How big is big?
September 25, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"By any definition of big, these markets are big."
— DFJ Element managing partner Michael DeRosa on a green building panel in New York
On Washington's solar leadership
September 11, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
“Alas, there is no federal leadership.”
— Claudine Schneider, president of the The Solar Alliance, a lobby group funded by solar equipment makers, on U.S. solar policy
Large scale demonstrations in San Francisco
September 4, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"The software industry's demos are onscreen. Demos in cleantech are in trial communities like Califia and others like it."
— Green building advocate Michael Gosney of the Green Century Institute, on a panel at Burning Man, about a proposed 10,000-person ecocity near San Francisco
Now where's my torque wrench...?
August 15, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"[It] really brings a commercial, industrial scale to this industry - ratchets it up to the next level."
— Imperium Renewables founder John Plaza on the opening of his co.'s 100M gallon/yr plant in Seattle
You can lead a camel to water...
July 23, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"It's like turning a running camel around."
— Trey Taylor, president of marine power developer Verdant Power, on pending changes at U.S. regulatory body FERC
The Porsche of wind turbines?
July 16, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"It's an astoundingly well worked out German mechanical genius. It's why you like to drive German cars."
— Benton Wilcoxon, chairman and CEO of co. that owns DeWind, on the company's variable speed turbine "transmission"
Panda shoots, leaves
July 10, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"This was clearly not an advantageous time to be out in the financial markets raising capital."
— Panda Ethanol CEO Todd Carter, on scuttling the corn ethanol company's attempt to raise $140M
