Investing in Green Energy is just..... smart?

Really? What advancements have they made? I would actually argue that all solar panel companies are staying afloat only by the government hand-outs. I recently listened to an interview with an executive of Lays potato chips. In the interview the exec talked about how difficult it had been to find economical ways put in 'green technology', and openly stated that only with government subsidies was it cost effective to invest in green technology. What do you think that means? It means without government subsidizing (taxing the poor to pay the rich), The Solar World would be out of business. As for organic power and such, all companies invest into new technologies. That's no surprise, and back in the 30s energy companies were investigating ethanol. Big yippy skippy. Just because Exxon is investigating other technologies, doesn't mean they know anything specific. In fact, when Obama's energy secretary talked about how oil would become less dominate, the energy companies including Exxon, literally laughed at him. Currently Algae technology is a bit of a joke. Is there potential? Sure but everything has potential. The 'electricity from algae' is only being investigated at the university level. It's only been proven possible, not economically or commercially viable. We're 30 years away from that. What Exxon has done, is tried making oil from Algae. This is more likely to succeed, but the problem is scalability. Algae produces around 1% it's own weight in oil. Now what that effectively means, is that we would need an algae incubator the size of lake Erie to make enough oil to be useful. Now I'm all for new technologies. But right now oil is so incredibly cheap, we simply don't need them yet. And these technologies have decades of maturing to do.

Solar World has been around for a long time like the 70s and they have been doing pretty steady they have been doing well for people who want to pay the $20,000 to install the system in their homes. The big advancements that have come from them is the shrinking of parts that make a solar panel work so that they would be more efficient in how much space they take up. The issue here is that the Government didn't give subsidies something the government has been doing for years. Corn would be a big example of this. Hence why High Fructose Corn Syrup is everywhere and in everything. It is a heavily subsidies product. There are only a few "Green" companies that are making it and mostly because they are backed by some big companies that are hoping to make a Good ROI one being GE. Now I am sure GE is taking all the tax credits they could get. I am against the Income tax to begin with and think we should go to a straight sales tax at the national level.

Based on what, do you make the claim that Chinese and Taiwanese green tech is smart?

The Chinese and Taiwanese get their tech from us.

So true, but then WHY other than media attention and short sightedness can the American people as a whole see this? It just doesn't make good sense.

The average joe blow American, does not have time to investigate every claim, every issue, and every politician that runs around blowing smoke. As a result, people inherently are going to vote for who ever has the best charisma, the best campaign, and whoever has the best catch phrases. Hope and Change. Yes we can. Believe! And you really can't blame the public. Some people are working two jobs. Some are carting kids around after school to soccer and piano lessons and whatever. They simply don't have time. So they have to make up their mind based on 30-second commercial sized spots, and whatever is repeated in the media. This is why the founding fathers of our country never wanted us to be a democracy. We're supposed to be a representative republic. We've lost that, and this is where we are now.

Interestingly, as much as some claim Bush was only for the wealthy, when this company, like Enron before it, came to the Bush administration asking for money, they turned them down. But Obama did not... so who was a lap-dogs of the wealthy again?