Dang, I don't know how I missed this:
The Kossacks over at famed progressive weblog DailyKos are trying to raise money to build a wind farm. A dKos-branded wind farm, no less!
Another Kossack suggests that the money would be better spent establishing "a foundation dedicated to funding independent and innovative energy technologies that help people, not corporations."
The comment threads on both posts are well worth reading.
So what do you think? If you had a huge group of investors, where would you put the money?
(Via Mobjectivist)
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MikeCapone Posted 6:51 pm
14 Jul 2005
I'll post about it on TreeHugger, thanks for the tip.
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amazingdrx Posted 10:39 pm
14 Jul 2005
I would go for the 1000 foot scale wind machines on the northern great plains. With mass production the cost will move down towards 1 cent per kwh.
A plan similar to the building of the liberty ships in WW 2. This would provide outstanding long term stable income for investors.
Bonds and dividend paying stock that would replace the traditional safe "widow and orphan" investments long gone down to wall street weaseldome via hedge fund insider trading.
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amazingdrx Posted 12:14 am
15 Jul 2005
The main development/design company should be separate, and contract with small business suppliers for the component parts and installation and transportation services.
This business needs to be independent enough to secure inovative solutions to building huge wind machines and mass producing and installing them. But it also has to be held to contract agreements by the wind power cooperative.
The coop could also spread out into leasing plugin hybrid cars and biofuel projects to power them.
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MikeCapone Posted 6:50 am
15 Jul 2005
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