Treehugger has this news via Cleantech and the IHT about the death of the Pelamis Wave Power Project that I had written about on this blog: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/portugal-pelamis-wave-power-project-dead-in-the-water.php Unfortunately, while the technical problems with the project were solved by its promoters, the current recession simply killed it. The tragedy is that the power that it would have generated would, most probably, come from fossil fuel sources and this is certain to cause more problems than it solves.
Well, one can only hope that the economy would improve . . .
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Sunday, December 7, 2008
More on Electric Carmakers' Problems
From the Wall Stret Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122849893450683261.html
US electric and hybrid carmakers have found that their big problems are 1. getting capital when oil prices have fallen sharply and 2. the fact that batteries are mostly manufactured in Japan, South Korea and "elsewhere in Asia." Well, with Lithium available in huge quantities in Bolivia and elsewhere in Latin America, perhaps, the USA needs to look at developing these countries as a manufacturing base for batteries and help itself as well as the economies of these countries by setting up manufacturing plants there. I know this is not going to be easy in a recession, but this is something that the USA could make work. It has more experience dealing with the Western Hemisphere than any other country in the world with the possible exception of the erstwhile colonial powers of Spain and Portugal.
US electric and hybrid carmakers have found that their big problems are 1. getting capital when oil prices have fallen sharply and 2. the fact that batteries are mostly manufactured in Japan, South Korea and "elsewhere in Asia." Well, with Lithium available in huge quantities in Bolivia and elsewhere in Latin America, perhaps, the USA needs to look at developing these countries as a manufacturing base for batteries and help itself as well as the economies of these countries by setting up manufacturing plants there. I know this is not going to be easy in a recession, but this is something that the USA could make work. It has more experience dealing with the Western Hemisphere than any other country in the world with the possible exception of the erstwhile colonial powers of Spain and Portugal.
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