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To: Road Walker who wrote (6091)	3/13/2009 11:06:28 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86355

1. If we don't implement newer technology now, then we won't get better technology in the future. You need an active marketplace for capitol to flow to the sector and for incremental improvement and scale price reductions to occur. First Solar is a good example... every year they build new plants and their COGS decreases and their efficiency increases. If I and all others hadn't bought a 286 microprocessor computer from Intel then they never would have gotten to the Pentium and beyond. Perhaps. But I think the decision to invest in new technologies should be made by people (not bureaucrats or politicians) investing their own capital willingly, not because a politician or bureaucrat mandates they must. 2. 'Wholesale adoption' isn't going to happen; it's a straw man. It will be incremental over, my best guess, the next 40-50 years. We couldn't afford to do it over night. So yes the wind farms we are installing today will be less efficient than the wind farms we install in 10 years... same with solor panels. I hope that is the plan. I guess what we have here is big bold dramatic statements being made (get off oil, oil and coal industries withering and dying a few years from now, oil to 50 cents a barrel, etc) then when challenged on the reasonableness or wisdom, oh we don't mean anything that dramatic, we're talking mere incremental change over half a century. Perhaps I should just assume people don't mean a lot of what they say. OTOH, a lot of people thought that about Obama and were mistaken.