Life Inside the Beautiful Alternative Energy Industry Bubble Before the Big Burst

We all know the problem with industry sectorthat nice and worthy of our funding? Sure and so
bubbles, and when they burst it effects us all. Wewas an Internet that will supply us every our every
remember all too well the Dot Com bubble burst thatdesire, or the wonderful concept of home ownership
crushed Silicon Valley. The sector clearly got awayfor everyone, regardless of their ability to repay and
from itself with massive runaway nonsense. Peoplea real estate investment that would go up forever?
starting a website basically and taking it public andFolks, I run a Think Tank, and we have been
walking away along with their Vulture Capitalists withreviewing business plans, prototypes, concepts, and
10s if not 100s of millions of dollars only to do itideas for new energy generation schemes involving
again, and again, with no reality behind it.clean energy exploitation. Most of them will never
Sure, many viable companies came out of it, eventurn a positive ROI, but they all seem to be getting
some dot coms that that actually eventually startedfunded, but why? If they do not make sense, why is
making real money, but we watched that irrationalall this money flowing in this direction.
exuberance and runaway profit taking of nothing butWe've recently seen many ethanol plants belly up
hot air, so that balloon was ready for a fall, withand many new projects die on the vine for lack of
everyone left in the basket, but up, up and awayconstruction credit. Why is this happening? Well, the
until the very last day.plants are not viable, and cannot return an
The Housing Bubble, got to be completely insane, ininvestment unless they are subsidized and/or unless
the same runaway fashion and look where we aregasoline is selling above $3.45 a gallon.
today, as that effected not only our nation's financialWell, look what we are doing now with alternative
system, but the entire world that was naïvegreen energy projects, pouring money into them,
enough to believe that the bundled mortgages weresubsidizing them, even penalizing other more viable
as viable as their AAA stamps. Folks if it sounds tooenergy systems that work and have worked for
good to be true, you had better check six, but notyears. Folks, we are building a bubble, a beautiful
that time, no once again, they flew straight and levelbubble, one where a perfect Utopian life can be had,
into the Sunset.one that will last forever - well as long as we keep
Now we are building a new bubble, a beautiful bubblepouring exponentially more money into it.
built on a beautiful promise, one of clean energy, isn'tWill we ever learn?