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Megawatts in them thar hills

January 24, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"It's like drilling for oil below where the others drill."
— Wind Harvest International CEO Kevin Wolf on his co.'s new vertical axis wind turbines, designed to nest under larger ones (full story »)
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Sick of solar panels and wind turbines

January 17, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Consumers are holding their noses to take medicine they perceive to taste awful but is necessary to bring the fever down."
— Dana Cogar, EcoAlign, on consumer survey finding clean technologies unattractive (full story »)
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What cost, biofuels?

December 18, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
[Turning food crops into fuel is] "a crime against humanity."
— Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, calling for a five-year moratorium on biofuel production, quoted by Canada's Globe & Mail
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And in an unusual twist...

December 13, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"I don’t subscribe to the climate change theory ... I'm in business to make money, and that's what we have to drive towards or we won’t be here to change climate."
— Tim Teich, Global Solar sales and marketing VP (context »)
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Oil's well that ends well

December 5, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"I think we're only seeing $100 a barrel oil because there's a concerted effort to keep the price down."
— Dr. Yogi Goswami, former President, International Solar Energy Society, keynoting the ThinkEquity ThinkGreen conference in San Francisco
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Lissa Morgenthaler endorsement

November 16, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
“The most honest description of algal biofuels I’ve witnessed in the financial community.”
— Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones, CEO, LiveFuels, on Cleantech Group's biofuel from algae webinar (watch it »)
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Vinod Coal-sla

November 15, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"I’m a pragmentalist, not an environmentalist. We have to do the things that make the most difference, not the most ideal solutions."
— Vinod Khosla on why he'd pick nuclear plants over coal, and why environmentalists should be blamed for global warming (full story »)
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Yummy - not

November 9, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"People don't want to drink water that tastes like a pool, or a dead fish."
— John Kaestle, CEO of water company HaloSource, slamming traditional chlorine and iodine disinfection at an investor conference in San Francisco (full story »)
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Chessia Kelley endorsement

November 8, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"[Your energy policy article] is the most incisive article I have read in a long time and I am sending it to everyone I know."
— Chessia Kelley
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Carol Ann Wentworth endorsement

November 8, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"I have to thank you for your web site. It's an amazing resource."
— Carol Ann Wentworth, Sr. Advisor, The Bay Area Council, San Francisco
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