Comments on: How green could make Europe a tech power

The region has diesel expertise, a green populace, and interested governments. Could Europe be a big player in green tech?

[brianbot5000]

Wrong Article Headline

It should be called, "How the US is missing the boat on green tech".

[feliks2]

Why?

Is there a reason the focus should be on America?

[frankskiss]

I'm glad someone is looking beyond OIL

Congratulation for a well written and thought out article. Please send a copy to Obama with my complements, he needs to awaken the American public to the Bush/Cheney solution to the US employment and environmental problems, more OIL! Keeping Exxon and the rest of America's oiligophy making mucho dinero for their croanies, instead of using more engineers to solve problems that are feasible and require no military..

[Commander_Spock]

What are you really saying man!!!

If what History Book (the Bible) is saying is true it was no way that Pharaoh's Army could have all been wiped out by the closing of the Red Sea (saw this while watching the "Ten Commandments" for 5oth time and more. ;-) ) if countries having their armies was the norm from ages immemorial. Did ya not hear that the Mc Man said that the U. S. got "lucky" that the Viet Congs (those that were being fought in Vietnam) did not follow American soldiers "home".

Do ya really think that it is all about oil! What happens when the "food" starts to run out?

[dargon19888]

LOL... There's more to it than that...

There's definitely a cultural differences between Israel, US, Europe, and AsiaPac.

Its these differences that show up in innovation and design when it comes to software. What makes things more confusing is when you have corporations that try to "global source" their development efforts.
(And why they end up with sub-par results.)

Of course the author left out Linux, but then again, Linux is what it is today due to the global sourcing... ;-)

[quincho]

where green tech comes from

my environmental awareness, as yours i think michael, goes far beyond any continental pride; whether nuclear is westinghouses or areva, led's are philips or chinese, i hope to be able to buy some luxim lightbulbs soon as well as eficient (20%)cigs solar panels...really don't care where the tech comes from...more i hope they all become very rich for their inventions!!the planet urgently needs all these inventions...thanks michael and martina for great reading and michael...question:what happened to boeings spectrolab multi-layer solarcell efficiency record of close to 40%?that was more then a year ago now?

[Commander_Spock]

Wow "Michael Kanellos"! Did you really mention OS/2???

Now that was just great. Commander_Spock and Crew believe that there is indeed some synergies between your article and this by "Steve Lohr's" - From "The New York Times":

"Why old technologies are still kicking"

http://www.news.com/Why-old-technologies-are-still-kicking/2100-1008_3-6235344.html

So, don/t count OS/2 out just yet. ;-) !

[Commander_Spock]

Hello "Mr. "Michael Kanellos"

Commander Data has insisted that we make mention that among the listing "of major disappointments in the technology world: OS/2, the Newton, PC-like Internet appliances...." that the Anglo-French (Europe) "CONCORDE" be included and has also characterized this omission with the "human" memory pattern. ;-)

[Newspeak finder]

Comic anti-europeanism at best.

And this passes as worthy of printing at CNET these days?

[Commander_Spock]

Re: "Comic anti-europeanism at best"!

Just how so!

[Commander_Spock]

Are you crazy man?

Sir Walter Raleigh could very well be "correct" about his sightings of El Dorado (the Golden City); and, "The CONCORDE" should be presently/currently be flying around with some "dudes" that are worth their weight in "gold" and "black gold" (ya know, like the "dudes" from the oil-rich Arab States. Still do know why the French did not decide to "fight" along side America and seventy-nine other nations!!! The thing (the conflict) could have been over a long time ago!
On the other hand the "fat" from the "fries" maybe converted to bio-diesel.... ;-) !

[knowles2]

Lets hope Europe does not make the same mistakes.

Well at the top now. That is not in question, in theory yeah we should move forward and be the top place for renewable technologies for the foreseeable future my only concern is that Europeans governments, especially Britain has habit of being world leaders in areas and then all of sudden they get short of funds and go for the short term options of cutting funding of projects instead of looking a long terms gains, prime example of UK having on of the most advance and coefficient rockets on the planet, yet we cancel the project just before commercial satellites launches became big business. And let just not go with the amount of mistakes Britain has made in the computer industry, we would certainly be a big player now if we have funded companies and research projects in the past, and our biggest mistake was destroying colossus at the end of the second world war, who know where we be if we invested heavily in the technology at the time.


I just prey Britain and other Europeans countries do not make the same mistakes.
But their is at least some sign of hope, hearing universities getting turn down for grants because projects lack any commercial goals is a good sign of change in the system.

[Commander_Spock]

Yep, "Lets hope Europe does not make the same mistakes".

Here is another one that "Britain" must have made - While Brazil is blazing the trail in the adoption of Ethanol 85 (E85) Guyana (a former colony of "Britain" with hundreds of thousands of acres inaccessible forested lands is conveniently used by drug smugglers as trans-shipments ports of entry into the United States; besides, from all appearances where the United States, Canada and Britain have failed where Guyana (formerly British Guiana) is concerned the Russians and Chinese are poised to succeed. Think Hydro-Power!

"RUSAL to mull hydropower-refinery, smelter studies also on the cards"
"By Nicosia Smith"
"Thursday, February 8th 2007"

http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article?id=56513627

[krosavcheg]

Europe is heading down and in a big way...

They've accepted lock, stock and barrel the "Carbon Trading" concept despite the fact that all the real evidence suggests that CO2 has only a minuscule effect on climate at best. The only way htey'll meet their ever increasing "lower CO2 emmisions" goals will be to devestate their economy.

[lorcro2000]

What real evidence?

I don't know what "real evidence" you are referring to, but the US has 5% of the worlds population and spews out over a third (last I read) of its pollutants. Definitely something wrong with this picture. In spite of that you'll note that it is the US economy that is tanking hard at the moment, not the European one, in spite of the US cheerfully spewing poison into our shared atmosphere daily.

Besides, European green thinking won't devastate the economy nearly as much as having the Republican leadership pouring money into Iraq as fast as it can be printed, to pick just one monumental money sink Bush has created in his 8 years of massive mismanagement.

[eumaios]

Michael Kanellos looks like Randy Newman

Doesn't he?