China’s New Plan for Solar Power Supremacy

Another green jobs scam:
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/bobbeauprez/2011/09/11/obamas_pet_billion...

The same week, solar energy investment analysts were already warning that Solyndra's business model was seriously flawed and that the hundreds of millions of dollars invested in the company "are going to be a huge waste." The same analysts criticized the Obama Administration's green energy policy as "misguided" for throwing vast sums at "a fledgling startup" (Solyndra) while the established solar companies like Evergreen Solar in Massachusetts were already struggling for market share and economic survival. A few months later, Evergreen closed US operations, laid off 800 workers, and moved their company to China .

Seems at times like Americans keep on innovating, and American Corporations keep on exporting those ideas to make tons of money for themselves via wage arbitrage overseas.

In doing so, businesses actively help develop the global markets that compete with us domestically and our incomes.

I picture that our nation is a car that is, at least temporarily, broken down on the side of the road with two or three different people who represent different political interests acting as mechanics. They're all looking under the hood, each saying that there is something wrong, that something that is wrong is the same thing, yet it is different according to each one, and they cannot agree on how to fix it so we can get back on the road again.

Meanwhile a car that represents China has caught up to us and seems to be passing us by... Not that such a thing is bad for China, more props to them for furthering their nations development. It just seems sad that so many of the political "mechanics" who are trying to fix our nation seem to have their heads so far up their own asses that they are more interested in receiving credit for good things rather than just fixing the problem.

Are we really ready to take a backseat to the Chinese in Tech like we did the Japanese after we "defeated" them in WWII? How about the next country we "defeat" is US? We need the jobs! ;=)

If every house that has the exposure had a PV array on the roof, it would go a long way helping achieve sustainability. Of course I have heard lame ass excuses like "Oh they are soooo ugly"; These come from, you guessed it, baggers.

President Obama came into office in 2009 with a majority house which went to work sending bills to the senate where in truth he did not have a majority the gop had enough republican democrats to block nearly every thing he tried to do then2010 the dems stayed home and helped lose him the house and further weakened the senate which made it nearly impossible to get any thing done and now so many of you want to just complain about him not getting done what you wanted and he is weak and he needs to fight harder.No you have it all wrong he is the best man for the job it is we the voters who are weak and have fell down on the job.We have to help him before he can be able to help us we can do that in 2012. lets put our efforts to helping not hindering him.

Great post, all very good Info!

Yep , and 40 million of them live in cave homes too . They are gonna kick our asses ..... financially speaking .

Good maybe they can shame this country into getting off its ass.....

I think I better learn more Chinese than the two phrases I know - "I love you!" and "your ancestors had twisted balls!". And I better learn fast!

NY Post Fabricates Statistic To Vilify Green Jobs
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109060019

September 06, 2011 6:00 pm ET by Jill Fitzsimmons

In an editorial blasting President Obama's green jobs initiatives, the New York Post falsely claimed that despite significant investments in clean energy, California's "environmental sector has actually lost jobs, not gained them":

“[T]he Obama administration's entire green-jobs initiative has been a massive boondoggle."

As The New York Times reported last month, Obama's grand plan to create 5 million green jobs over 10 years has turned into an enormous "pipe dream."

In California, for example, the environmental sector has actually lost jobs, not gained them.

Which raises serious questions about this administration's ability to come up with any kind of plan that will productively address America's unemployment crisis.

In fact, those job losses refer only to the San Jose metro area, not to the state of California as a whole, which has gained almost 80,000 green jobs since 2003 - a 4.2% annual increase - and leads the nation in the number of clean energy jobs.

Those numbers come from a recent Brookings Institution report assessing green jobs nationally and regionally, which was the subject of the New York Times/Bay Citizen article cited by the New York Post editorial. The Times article has been criticized for cherry-picking information from the Brookings report to paint a misleadingly negative picture of green job growth.

Contrary to the New York Post's dismissal of green jobs programs, Brookings found that Recovery Act investments contributed to a surge of growth in the clean economy, despite the recession:

“[D]uring the middle of the recession--from 2008 to 2009--the clean economy grew faster than the rest of the economy, expanding at a rate of 8.3 percent. This is likely due, in part, to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which channeled large sums of public spending towards clean energy projects through much of 2009.”

The report further concluded that its analysis "warrants excitement," adding that "smart policy support," rather than policy "uncertainties," will be required in order to make the most of promising clean economy segments:

The measurements, trends, and discussions offered here provide an encouraging but also challenging assessment of the ongoing development of the clean economy in the United States and its regions. In many respects, the analysis warrants excitement. As the nation continues to search for new sources of high-quality growth, the present findings depict a sizable and diverse array of industry segments that is - in key private-sector areas - expanding rapidly at a time of sluggish national growth. With smart policy support, broader, more rapid growth seems possible. At the same time, however, the information presented here is challenging, most notably because the growth of the clean economy has almost certainly been depressed by significant policy problems and uncertainties.

In that sense, what is most challenging here is the fundamental question raised by the dynamic growth but modest size of the most vibrant and promising segments of the clean economy.

That question is: Will the nation marshal the will to make the most of those industries?

The New York Post is not the first conservative media outlet to twist the facts to support its bizarre opposition to American clean energy.

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This government is a laughing stock. Do you see Obama what you missed in your jobs speech? When the hell are we going to stand up to these flatearther bullies!

While rightwing presidential candidates and media poo-poo solar energy the Chinese are making it happen.
Republicans are destroying our country!