GE's Immelt says U.S. economy needs industrial renewal
Now Playing: Production to replace consumer and Wall street index ?

General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeff Immelt said on Friday the United States needs to refocus its economy on manufacturing and exporting if it wishes to recover from a brutal recession.The world's largest economy can no longer count on consumer spending to drive demand, nor can it rely on Wall Street financial wizardry if it wants its population to continue to enjoy a high standard of living, the head of the largest U.S. conglomerate said.

"We should clear away any arrogance, false assumptions, or a sense that things will be 'OK' just because we are America," Immelt told the Detroit Economic Club. "Our competitive edge has slipped away and this has hit the middle class hard."The U.S. should work to have manufacturing represent about 20 percent of employment, more than double its current level, he said.
Source: Reuters

$3.9 Billion in Smart Grid Grants US
Now Playing: DOE Announces Guidelines for $3.9 Billion in Smart Grid Grants.

June 26, 2009 -
$615 million for smart grid demonstration projects will help develop
and implement smart grid technologies across the country.
Source: Clean Edge News

The Economic Recovery Plan’s Bold Move To Repower America »

The Obama economic recovery plan makes a bold investment in the modernization of our electricity infrastructure, in order to transform an often-overwhelmed patchwork of balkanized regional networks into a national “smart grid” based on Internet-like technology. Without a smart grid, the goal of independence from fossil fuels is impossible to reach. Repower America, Al Gore’s campaign to have America use 100% renewable electricity in ten years, explains that a national smart grid “will save money, increase reliability and protect consumers from outages, and make possible a clean electricity system.”

source: WonkRoom/THINK PROGRESS

Toyota must restart
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: New Toyota boss Akio Toyoda says he will cut his salary by 30 percent.
Topic: Smart economy

Akio Toyoda to reinvent Toyota, product lines have to fit to regional customers. End of Worldcar ? Moving forward, the company's focus will be on products, rather than profits, he said READ MORE> CNN

Feds lend Tesla $465 million to build electric car
Mood:  energetic
Now Playing: Obama starts cleantech "Fair selection"
Topic: Electric cars

  Finally money for intelligent Silicon Valley start-up company.

Tesla roadster electric cars gets $465 million

to build advanced clean vehicles. Read more>

France small donor to Sub saharan Africa
Now Playing: In 2005 the G7 promised to increase aid to sub-Saharan Africa
Topic: Poverty

French president Sarkozy goes Solar
Now Playing: Nicolas Sarkozy plaide pour les Energies renouvelables
Topic: Solarlife capital

 Sarkozy sees it as collective error, France being nuclear Leader, can not ignore Renewable energy

Things are changing with european elections giving 16% to the French Greens With Leader Dany Cohn-Bendit the 68 Student revolution leader

"Nous avons tous commis une erreur collective", a-t-il dit. "La France, en tête de tous les pays sur l'énergie nucléaire, pensait ne pas avoir besoin des énergies renouvelables."

Le chef de l'Etat s'exprimait lors d'une table ronde organisée sur le campus scientifique de l'Université de Savoie sur le thème du développement des énergies renouvelables, en présence d'un millier de représentants des secteurs concernés. éco-entrepreneurs ?

Source: Reuters / Yahoo

FRENCH GREENS up EU-Elections
Now Playing: Daniel Cohn-Bendit VERTS / GREENS
Topic: Politics

DANY

the Leader of the 68 Student revolution
in Paris could repeat his success for radical
change to Green for the European elections.
He could build up a non-frustrated team to
beat boaring french Socialists, not convincing
for renewable energy and social change.
Dany Cohn-Bendit and Sarkozy are the
winners in the European elections,

Daniel Cohn-Bendit VERTS/GREENS et
Nicolas Sarkozy UMP/REPUBLICANS sont les grands
vainqueurs des élections européennes en France

CNBC "Credit crisis end of Free trade ?
Now Playing: Russia in 10 years from Oil to Smart economy ?
Topic: Smart economy

The Future of trade faces national barriers, buy local.

Russia's president Medvedev sees Russia in 10 years

with goal Smart economy replacing Oil.

 Smart economy Russia 2020:

COMMUNICATION - GREEN TECHNOLOGIES - ENERGY EFFICIENCY

GM DEAD, GREEN TECHNOLOGIES next 2010/11

Green technologies 2010 / 2011

GM general motors bankruptcy !!!

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 solar, smart grid and biofuels next industry 

Green technologies sector analyst Eric Wesoff says, “2009 will be a year of consolidation and development while 2010 and 2011 will be the year greentech breaks. Expect to see IPOs and acquisitions of VC-funded firms in solar, smart grid and biofuels. All in all, a good start to the year.”

Renewable Distributed Energy Generation (RDEG)

is growing... wind and solar

revenues at $29.9 billion at the end of 2008, and it predicts the market to more than double in value to $60.6 billion by 2013. Globally, photovoltaic solar installations were up 110 percent in 2008.

slc visiting cleanequity
Now Playing: March-19 2009
Topic: Solarlife capital

 IT electrical smart grid

 5 Years energy capital