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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (5059)	5/25/2005 12:05:46 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

CC, "While the U.S. has remained fixated on oil and gas, Denmark, Germany, and Japan have surpassed our country in reaping the economic benefits of renewable-energy technologies. Non-U.S. companies now produce about 90 percent of solar photovoltaic panels, with Japanese firms alone controlling about 49 percent of the solar-technology market -- technology that Americans originally developed. European companies control 85 percent of wind-turbine manufacturing, and the U.S. currently imports fuel cells from Canada." BBC the other night did a segment on European solar and wind industries...their plans are to continue to expand the roll out of more wind turbines and solar; panels and photovoltaic. len