I love this quote from one of China’s leading businessmen, in – of all industries – solar energy. “Renewable energy doesn’t mean people have to be uncomfortable.”
It’s so true, that renewable energy alternatives could provide ways for us to live comfortably, pretty much how we’re used to living, without producing harmful carbon emissions (and even those that don’t believe in global warming must agree that carbon emissions are a negative). Together with keeping waste to a minimum, and improving efficiencies wherever possible, it seems like renewable energy – like solar – is a no-brainer in terms of providing the energy we need.
And it’s excellent that one of the leading businessmen in China is building a whole solar industry around such ideas. The quote shown above is from the head honcho of Himin Solar Energy, China’s premier producer of solar energy solutions. Their top product is currently solar water heaters, but they have research and products that even provide solar-powered air conditioning (seems crazy, but true!)
It just leads one to question, though, why there are no such companies popping up here in the US? Or if there are, why don’t they have the buzz around them that Himin, and China’s Solar Valley, do? We absolutely don’t have any companies, or groups of companies, that even come close to rivaling the scale of Solar Valley, which is a shame. There would be tons of jobs created in such a burgeoning, growing industry… research & development, manufacturing. According to a report last year in the Washington Post, Goldman Sachs invested $100 million in Himin Solar Energy Group. Shame that we don’t have a comparable company here on our shores that we could all invest in instead.
