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