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Peevy on PV

March 28, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"The cost is going to come down so dramatically, that he could not make that kind of comment for this kind of project."
— Mike Peevey, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, responding to criticism of solar PV tech by UC professor Severin Borenstein (article »)
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The Real Big Kahuna

March 14, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Cars are only nine percent. They’re not the big kahuna."
— Serious Materials CEO Kevin Surace on buildings as the dominant global source of CO2 emissions
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OLEDs... they're everywhere!

March 13, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Our long-term goal is just to light everybody's house with this stuff."
— Anil Duggal, head of GE's Advanced Technology Program in Organic Electronics, on his new organic LEDs (full story »)
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Who'da thunk?

March 3, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"I never would have imagined five years ago that we'd be investing in cement and glass and water, but in fact there are massive opportunities for innovation."
— Investor Vinod Khosla at a press conference announcing his chairmanship of Cleantech India's advisory board
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Dave Henderson endorsement

March 3, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"We found participating in the Cleantech Group's webinar series a very valuable way to reach a global audience."
— David Henderson, XPV Capital
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Show us bags of money, California

February 21, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"They've been handing out bags of money and calling it a feed-in tariff. People think that they want a feed-in tariff, but what they really want is those bags of money."
— Adam Browning, executive director of California's Vote Solar Initiative, comparing Germany's feed-in tariff to the state's new feed-in tariff (story »)
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Why bother?

February 17, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"On the whole, the evidence is mixed; the evidence would show there's a weak correlation at best."
— Jasmin Ansar, manager of environmental policy at PG&E, on whether corporate responsibility initiatives translate into economic benefits. On a panel at Google in Mountain View, CA, Feb 13th, 2008.
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Gore co-opted by petroleum industry

February 8, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Calling the study 'simplistic,' as biofuel interests have, doesn’t eliminate the inconvenient truth."
— Charles T. Drevna of the U.S. National Petrochemical and Refiners' Association on a study claiming converting land to biofuel production can actually speed global warming(full story »)
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Silly President, silly President!

January 30, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"For him to call for this is just silly."
— Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University professor, on U.S. President George Bush's cleantech fund announced this week (full story »)
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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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