From the Energy Front 020910
Hey folks,
Remember this back on January 8th, Obama gave this big Energy Investment Speech? He said this.
"It’s clear why such an effort is so important. Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future — jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced. But it’s also how we will reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil, a dependence that endangers our economy and our security. And it is how we will combat the threat of climate change and leave our children a planet that’s safer than the one we inherited."
Let's leave aside the fact that this is all based on a SCAM, for a second, on January 10th I posted this. OPNTalk - Analysis Of Obama's Clean Energy Investment Speech I said this about THAT Statement.
All complete BS. Why can these jobs NOT be outsourced? Who is making some of the Solar Panels in use TODAY? What an ignorant thing to say. ANYTHING can be outsourced. I'm not sure when that could be said to be good. But Anything can and WILL be, if some Company Heads discover, "I can move my plant to XWZ, NOT pay Taxes, NOT be regulated to death, NOT be forced to pay Oppressive Healthcare costs. Hell, why not."
Well, well, well. What do we have here? According to the LA TIMES - California solar startup Ausra acquired by French nuclear energy giant Areva February 8, 2010 3:00 pm -- Todd Woody
French nuclear energy giant Areva has jumped into the U.S. renewable energy market with the acquisition of Ausra, a Silicon Valley solar power plant startup backed by high-profile venture capitalists.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but in an interview on Monday, Areva executive Anil Srivastava said that the price the company paid for Ausra was in line with the $418 million that rival Siemens spent last year to acquire Solel, an Israel solar power plant builder.
That would be a decent payday for Ausra’s investors, which include marquee Silicon Valley venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Khosla Ventures.
“The current shareholders are very well-reputed venture capitalists and I can assure you they negotiated very well,” said Srivastava, the chief executive of Areva’s renewable energy division.
Well, GOOD for them. But uh, what happened to AMERICAN Jobs? Being Done by American Companies and American people?
Ausra burst onto the green tech scene in 2007 after relocating to Silicon Valley from Australia and announcing plans to build a gigawatt's worth of solar thermal power plants.
Though the startup raised about $130 million from investors, early last year it abandoned plans to build its own solar projects to focus on supplying solar equipment to other developers. Then in November, Ausra said it would seek a buyer.
With the sale to Areva, the world’s largest nuclear power company, Ausra is back in the power plant-building business.
“Good technology was not enough to give what customers needed,” said Robert Fishman, Ausra’s chief executive, who will stay on to run Areva’s global solar division out of Ausra’s Mountain View, Calif., offices. “We needed the financial strength to guarantee that our technology had a global footprint. By joining forces with Areva, we’ve solved that problem.”
They did NOT join forces with them. They SOLD OUT to them. Because there is no MARKET for this on a mass scale yet. There will not be for YEARS to come.
While Areva is new to the solar market, the company’s $18 billion in annual revenues should help reassure bankers who tend to shy away from financing multibillion-dollar solar power plants using new technologies.
Wait? $18 Billion? That's a lot of "Windfall Profit," is it not? Why should Obama and Crew not go after THEIR Profits? Where is Pelosi? Clinton? Where is Congress? Give them time.
Areva will also continue to sell Ausra’s solar thermal equipment, which uses rows of long flat mirrors to focus the sun on water-filled tubes suspended over the arrays. The superheated water creates steam for industrial uses or to drive an electricity-generating turbine.
Srivastava said Areva would target the desert Southwest in the United States as well as markets in Europe, the Middle East, Australia and South Africa.
So? Obama said?
"Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future — jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced. But it’s also how we will reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil, a dependence that endangers our economy and our security."
I guess it will not be so bad to work for the French. Right? Or that we will now have to rely on the French Government for our "Green Jobs" here. In Solar anyway. Right? Well, that worked out well.
Folks, Drill here, Drill Now. Let's keep Energy Costs affordable to all. Let's Employ workers HERE with AMERICAN Companies, and lets wean ourselves off of dependence of foreign Governments. Things we could actually do TODAY. Just a thought. {Sigh}
Peter
Hey folks,
Remember this back on January 8th, Obama gave this big Energy Investment Speech? He said this."It’s clear why such an effort is so important. Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future — jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced. But it’s also how we will reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil, a dependence that endangers our economy and our security. And it is how we will combat the threat of climate change and leave our children a planet that’s safer than the one we inherited."
Let's leave aside the fact that this is all based on a SCAM, for a second, on January 10th I posted this. OPNTalk - Analysis Of Obama's Clean Energy Investment Speech I said this about THAT Statement.
All complete BS. Why can these jobs NOT be outsourced? Who is making some of the Solar Panels in use TODAY? What an ignorant thing to say. ANYTHING can be outsourced. I'm not sure when that could be said to be good. But Anything can and WILL be, if some Company Heads discover, "I can move my plant to XWZ, NOT pay Taxes, NOT be regulated to death, NOT be forced to pay Oppressive Healthcare costs. Hell, why not."
Well, well, well. What do we have here? According to the LA TIMES - California solar startup Ausra acquired by French nuclear energy giant Areva February 8, 2010 3:00 pm -- Todd Woody
French nuclear energy giant Areva has jumped into the U.S. renewable energy market with the acquisition of Ausra, a Silicon Valley solar power plant startup backed by high-profile venture capitalists.Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but in an interview on Monday, Areva executive Anil Srivastava said that the price the company paid for Ausra was in line with the $418 million that rival Siemens spent last year to acquire Solel, an Israel solar power plant builder.
That would be a decent payday for Ausra’s investors, which include marquee Silicon Valley venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Khosla Ventures.
“The current shareholders are very well-reputed venture capitalists and I can assure you they negotiated very well,” said Srivastava, the chief executive of Areva’s renewable energy division.
Well, GOOD for them. But uh, what happened to AMERICAN Jobs? Being Done by American Companies and American people?
Ausra burst onto the green tech scene in 2007 after relocating to Silicon Valley from Australia and announcing plans to build a gigawatt's worth of solar thermal power plants.
Though the startup raised about $130 million from investors, early last year it abandoned plans to build its own solar projects to focus on supplying solar equipment to other developers. Then in November, Ausra said it would seek a buyer.
With the sale to Areva, the world’s largest nuclear power company, Ausra is back in the power plant-building business.
“Good technology was not enough to give what customers needed,” said Robert Fishman, Ausra’s chief executive, who will stay on to run Areva’s global solar division out of Ausra’s Mountain View, Calif., offices. “We needed the financial strength to guarantee that our technology had a global footprint. By joining forces with Areva, we’ve solved that problem.”
They did NOT join forces with them. They SOLD OUT to them. Because there is no MARKET for this on a mass scale yet. There will not be for YEARS to come.
While Areva is new to the solar market, the company’s $18 billion in annual revenues should help reassure bankers who tend to shy away from financing multibillion-dollar solar power plants using new technologies.
Wait? $18 Billion? That's a lot of "Windfall Profit," is it not? Why should Obama and Crew not go after THEIR Profits? Where is Pelosi? Clinton? Where is Congress? Give them time.
Areva will also continue to sell Ausra’s solar thermal equipment, which uses rows of long flat mirrors to focus the sun on water-filled tubes suspended over the arrays. The superheated water creates steam for industrial uses or to drive an electricity-generating turbine.
Srivastava said Areva would target the desert Southwest in the United States as well as markets in Europe, the Middle East, Australia and South Africa.
So? Obama said?
"Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future — jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced. But it’s also how we will reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil, a dependence that endangers our economy and our security."
I guess it will not be so bad to work for the French. Right? Or that we will now have to rely on the French Government for our "Green Jobs" here. In Solar anyway. Right? Well, that worked out well.
Folks, Drill here, Drill Now. Let's keep Energy Costs affordable to all. Let's Employ workers HERE with AMERICAN Companies, and lets wean ourselves off of dependence of foreign Governments. Things we could actually do TODAY. Just a thought. {Sigh}
Peter
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BILLINGS, Mon. - British Columbia's government said Tuesday it will not permit mining or drilling in a remote valley along the Montana border that companies have been trying to develop for 25 years.
Oil exploration, gas drilling and coal mining are all proposed for the Flathead Valley, just north of Glacier National Park. But international pressure has been increasing to ban those activities, which United States and U.N. officials have said would mar a scenic valley relatively untouched by development.
As the world turns its attention on the province with the upcoming Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. Lt.-Gov. Steven Point a throne speech Tuesday the province wants to show its commitment to the environment.
"Mining, oil and gas development and coal-bed gas extraction will not be permitted in British Columbia's Flathead Valley," he said.
Point said the province instead wants to build a new "creative economy" around clean technology, innovative forestry industries and tourism.
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Yea, Canada!!! Thank goodness somebody has an ounce of intelligence. And congratulations to all the environmentalists the world over for working so hard to save my back yard. Forever indebted.
Go ahead and use the areas designated for drilling already under lease in the US and build some more refineries.
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