Just blog surfin’ today…
A few entries from other blogs I wanted to point out today.
Joel Makower has a quick entry about how (North) Americans have short memories. Despite high gas prices this summer and earlier reports that SUV sales were in trouble, it’s being reported now that interest in SUVs is on the rise again. Doh! It seems that drivers just don’t get it. The latest easing of oil/gasoline prices is part of a pattern that can be best described as two-step-back, one-step-forward. If you want to see that trend charted, check out The Energy Blog, which makes it very clear in a link to an oil price chart that oil prices are going to continue to rise.
The Energy Blog has a couple of other interesting entries — one on the launch of China’s new polycrystalline silicon production facility, which I touched on myself in an earlier entry. This will make China much more competitive in the solar PV space, and free it from dependence on U.S., Japanese and German companies that handle most silicon production in the world today. The other entry is on GE Energy and its high hopes in the wind power and clean coal (integrated gasification combined cycle) markets.
Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
