Quotes

Politician in hot water

April 29, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week

"What are you doing with all the heated water from your panels?"

— Unnamed European Energy Commissioner touring a solar PV plant last week; recounted by Hermann Scheer in keynote at Cleantech Forum XVII in Brussels (story »)

Excited about parking garages

April 22, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week

"Fat and sassy!"

— How California Lighting Technology Center Director Michael Siminovitch describes the market opportunity for self-dimming LED parking garage lighting (story »)

We've been expecting you, Mr. Bond

April 15, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week

"A good year in the carbon space is a bad day in the bond market."

— Natsource LLC founder Jack Cogen on the tiny size of today's carbon economy. At the Wall St. Green Trading Summit in New York.

For whom the bell dings

April 3, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week

"The Senate doesn't have John Dingell. You don't want to play poker with him."

— Bill Bumpers of Baker & Botts at the Wall St. Green Trading Summit on a forthcoming Dingell-Boucher U.S. Congressional carbon trading bill vs. the Senate's Lieberman-Warner bill

Peevy on PV

March 28, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week

"The cost is going to come down so dramatically, that he could not make that kind of comment for this kind of project."

— Mike Peevey, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, responding to criticism of solar PV tech by UC professor Severin Borenstein (article »)

The Real Big Kahuna

March 14, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week

"Cars are only nine percent. They’re not the big kahuna."

— Serious Materials CEO Kevin Surace on buildings as the dominant global source of CO2 emissions

OLEDs... they're everywhere!

March 13, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week

"Our long-term goal is just to light everybody's house with this stuff."

— Anil Duggal, head of GE's Advanced Technology Program in Organic Electronics, on his new organic LEDs (full story »)

Who'da thunk?

March 3, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week

"I never would have imagined five years ago that we'd be investing in cement and glass and water, but in fact there are massive opportunities for innovation."

— Investor Vinod Khosla at a press conference announcing his chairmanship of Cleantech India's advisory board (full story »)

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 »)

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