Quotes

One small step for CCS, one large step for mankind

January 7, 2009 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"This is a race to the moon. The company that get this up and running in places such as China and India will make massive amounts of money."
— Paul Soffe of carbon monetizer EcoSecurities on CCS (full interview »)
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Solar struggles

December 16, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"This shouldn't have come as a surprise."
— Ian Tharp of Dundee Capital Markets on the ripple effect of Q-Cells revising its 2009 forecast (story »)
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Silver lining

December 4, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"It’s now easier to tell good companies from bad."
— Greg Ye, Partner, New Margin Ventures, on the economic downturn & cleantech (story »)
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Avast ye maties

November 29, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"For those putting money to work this is a great time to have some dry powder."
— Nicholas Parker of the Cleantech Group in a cleantech state of the union webinar (full archive »)
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Red woodsmen

November 11, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
“Foresters by nature are conservative folk."
— Tom Urban, CEO of CellFor, about why the timber industry is slowly, but increasingly, adopting seedlings developed through somatic embryogenesis. Read article »
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Hope them wagons float

November 2, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"We'll circle the wagons and decide how to move forward."
— Dan Whaley, CEO of Climos, on a new ruling impeding large scale ocean fertilization (story »)
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Cleantech gets schooled

October 17, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
“Welcome to refining, freshmen.”
— Neal Dikeman on why the failure of corn-ethanol makers should be a lesson to cleantech investors trying to outsmart big oil (full story>>).
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Dark side of the sun

October 10, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Panel shortage is now the most significant issue and will get worse."
— Tom McCalmont, CEO of REgrid Power, on the potential problems created by the extension of U.S. tax credits for solar energy (full story>>)
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Water rocks

October 2, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Even Moses tried to extract water from a stone—it worked for a very short while. You couldn't make a company out of it."
— Shimon Peres, president of Israel, on why new companies are trying to find ways to reduce the amount of water used instead of finding new sources (story »)
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Fork over carbon sequestration

September 16, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"We're at a fork in the road. If we're not quite at the fork, we're standing up through the sunroof looking down the road at the fork."
— Dr. Tony Haymet, Director, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, at the Cleantech Forum in Washington D.C. on how the world needs to get serious about either coal CO2 sequestration or demand destruction
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