Comments on: GE to make heavy-duty batteries in New York

Company planning a $100 million plant in upstate New York to make sodium batteries for hybrid locomotives and other heavy-duty and transportation applications.

[Joe Real]

Great move on the part of GE, building the battery manufacturing plants here in the U.S.

Our "smart" executives just love to outsource the US jobs and manufacturing facilities abroad. With fewer decent jobs left for the US citizens and residents, so is their purchasing power. The customer base for hybrids, solar panels, and other big ticket items have been eroded. So the "smart" executives are thinking why the sales are sluggish, the US customers are not buying. Even with the 30% tax credit incentives for solar panels, the residential customers are not buying as much as expected, simply because they can't even have tax credit to take advantage of because they are either out of jobs or have been reduced to minimum wage. That's the "smartness" of outsourcing our manufacturing and our jobs to overseas., and it is just a matter of time that we can't afford to buy the outsourced products as we have no jobs that brings us enough money.

We have had "smart" executives who ruined our economy and they get themselves bonus for it, and now we have "smart" executives who have been outsourcing our battery technologies and solar panels.

And so our great thanks indeed to GE, Solyndra, and other US companies who opted to build the manufacturing plants here, even with stricter environmental laws and higher labor, most especially for not outsourcing many jobs. You help rebuild the customer base, which will be a good road to US economic recovery, and surely we will be buying US made products.

[kbellve]

From the photos: "Steinmetz was one of the early inventors of electricity,.."

Really?

[mlamonica]

That should one of the early pioneers of electric engineering. I'll try to get that fixed.

[disco-legend-zeke]

"equivalent of 900 megawatts worth of storage, Immelt said. " 900 megawatts is a measure of current, not storage capacity.

I'm sure you mean you mean 900 megawatt HOURS

[mlamonica]

Yes, changed to megawatt-hours.