Comments on: The fatal flaw for green-tech companies

There's a chance green products will save the world, so why are they so boring compared to a cell phone with a built-in TV?

[Andronicus]

I would disagree

I think that he has it backwords.

Internet employee to me is a run of the mill geek that hovers around the gate 1/2 hour before the plane even arives.

The Green-Tech guy is the swave with the glamours job of selling the latest 'cool' environmentaly friendly item.

[rnieves1977]

I concur

I'm a complete computer geek but I think the new energy trend is just beginning to pick up steam and there is some cool factor. That cheap renewable energy will eventually power everything including my mobile devices. It would be cool to have an iPhone that I don't have to charge but picks up enough radiant energy to charge as I go.

Michael, if I was any more of an energy fanatic it would sound to me like big oil and those coal ppl got into your pocket. lol Anyways, your comparing two completely different industry's with only "cutting edge" being the common denominator and your argument seems weak.

[digitanomad]

I Agree with Disagree

You could be correct. A talented wordsmith can spin a skewed story on about most anything. Look at how the opposing views of Net Neutrality are spun.

The misinformation campaigns by the duopoly and the lobbyists are good examples. Watch any Comcast commercial, or AT&T tripe.

The same thing happens in political campaigns. Can you say, Bill Clinton.

There is a place for Green...and it will seem very "sexy" when some folks build fortunes around the concept, and become the darlings of Wall Street.

[signpointer]

Lucrative?

Yeah, you can't hardly make any money in energy. Guess that's why Exxon made a paltry $40 billion record for a corporation last year. We know how chic it is to sell gas. How many things that you buy in the course of a week are cool anyway. Johnson & Johnson, Purina Mills, GE, K-Mart.....laughing all the way to the bank selling perfectly ordinary things. But is is somehow a flaw for green energy? Spend that time waiting for your plane coming up with better ideas for columns instead of making fun of your fellow passengers, this one is pretty lame.

[davinci8x8]

cheap swipe

"I am doing my part to reduce greenhouse gases (which will work as long as someone in China doesn't offset it by buying a Hummer)..."

Cheap swipe aside, it's exactly such attitudes that get us no where.

[ynotbecreative]

Partly due to the media

Media spends more time talking about the evils of global
warming than the solutions and the ways that we can forge
ahead. Now, I grant you that c|net does some of its part, but as
a whole, media in general would far rather spend its time
whining and moaning, than solving ANYTHING. The media needs
to do their part, as it has more exposure than anything else.
They need to stop whining and start doing - put up some
solutions or shut up. Talking about something does not do
something.

[summershoe]

The fatal flaw with hubris

Wow, someone is a little too in awe of their own industry. When I think "internet employee" I think "geek", especially internet executive (Bill Gates,Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs (yes, Steve Jobs)). 15 years ago you could have summed it up with that but now geek has become cool. Green-tech is a baby. Give it some time and it may become cool too.

[Kimsh]

Oh dear

Are most Americans really fixated on causing feelign of inadequacy with their clothing and "hitting on" others? Wow, maybe drowing the US in a sea of polution IS the best thing that could happen. Thanks for making me feel better about the suffering millions.

[Matt501]

I had to chuckle at "(which will work as long as someone in China doesn't offset it by buying a Hummer)." - since publication the Chinese have bought HUMMER. So much for that...