Quotes

Politician in hot water

Dallas Kachan — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:31:51 -0400

"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

Dallas Kachan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:21:18 -0400

"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

Dallas Kachan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:26:30 -0400

"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

Dallas Kachan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:04:35 -0400

"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

Dallas Kachan — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:35:29 -0400

"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

Massie Santos Ballon — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:19:11 -0400

"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!

Dallas Kachan — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:45:02 -0400

"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?

Dallas Kachan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:29:37 -0500

"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

Dallas Kachan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:48:42 -0500

"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?

Dallas Kachan — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:34:39 -0500

"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

Dallas Kachan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:29:00 -0500

"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 »)