Quote from: jwinterm on September 05, 2014, 12:51:00 AM

Quote from: AnonyMint on September 04, 2014, 07:40:43 PM

Risto trying to pick the winner reminds me of the government agencies trying to pick the winning technologies, e.g. China provided incentives to push into solar and now solar didn't pan out and going bankrupt.

Not sure if really poor analogy or just spewing falsehoods?

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China Will Install More Solar This Year Than The U.S. Ever Has

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/08/3468974/china-solar-capacity-booming/

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China was responsible for almost one-fifth of total global investment, spending $52 billion on renewable energy last year. The United States was close behind with investments of $51 billion...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jackperkowski/2012/07/27/china-leads-the-world-in-renewable-energy-investment/

China has a terrible pollution problem, and they are taking some strides at least to wrangle the problem in the longterm. They also manage to import so many solar panels into the USA that many manufacturers here are crying "uncle", despite installing more PV capacity than the USA has in their entire history in the same year. Not sure how you figure solar "didn't pan out" for them.

You are fooled as any good socialist, tree hugger Malthusian would be.

https://www.google.com/search?q=china's+solar+debacle

In one word, subsidies.

In more words, tax incentives and subsidies.