Comments on: America’s path to alternative energy runs through Brazil http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/03/30/americas-path-to-alternative-energy-runs-through-brazil/ Wed, 22 May 2013 16:04:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Anonymous http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/03/30/americas-path-to-alternative-energy-runs-through-brazil/comment-page-1/#comment-42732 Anonymous Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:11:56 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=12341#comment-42732 Brasilia is the power it is today because of Lula's enlightened leadership. Before Lula its currency regularly crashed, and there was zero safety net for the poor. Today, while far from perfect, there is great hope, the poor are getting some help, and the country is in the best financial condition it has ever seen. We need to understand how intervening to help the general populace, while also practicing financial rectitude can transform a country in a few short years, as it did, magnificently, in Brasil. Instead, we seem to try and follow the neo-con models of Chile and Singapore, where you get either quasi-dictatorship or outright repression. The future is Sweden, Germany and Norway--and Brasil, if it continues on the path of social democracy, looks like it will get there, too. They are the countries whose model works and whose people have the best chance at a healthy, dynamic life--and, neo-con propaganda to the contrary, the best chance for a stable financial future. Brasilia is the power it is today because of Lula’s enlightened leadership. Before Lula its currency regularly crashed, and there was zero safety net for the poor. Today, while far from perfect, there is great hope, the poor are getting some help, and the country is in the best financial condition it has ever seen. We need to understand how intervening to help the general populace, while also practicing financial rectitude can transform a country in a few short years, as it did, magnificently, in Brasil. Instead, we seem to try and follow the neo-con models of Chile and Singapore, where you get either quasi-dictatorship or outright repression. The future is Sweden, Germany and Norway–and Brasil, if it continues on the path of social democracy, looks like it will get there, too. They are the countries whose model works and whose people have the best chance at a healthy, dynamic life–and, neo-con propaganda to the contrary, the best chance for a stable financial future.

]]> By: Oxygen684 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/03/30/americas-path-to-alternative-energy-runs-through-brazil/comment-page-1/#comment-42722 Oxygen684 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:10:18 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=12341#comment-42722 I wanted to share one more link that shows the promise of what Fuel Cell Technology and Natural Gas could bring the USA... thanks http://enbridge.rawintegrated.com/hybrid/hybrid_complete.html http://fchea.posterous.com/posco-power-completes-100-mw-fuel-cell-power I wanted to share one more link that shows the promise of what Fuel Cell Technology and Natural Gas could bring the USA… thanks

http://enbridge.rawintegrated.com/hybrid  /hybrid_complete.html

http://fchea.posterous.com/posco-power-c ompletes-100-mw-fuel-cell-power

]]> By: Oxygen684 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/03/30/americas-path-to-alternative-energy-runs-through-brazil/comment-page-1/#comment-42721 Oxygen684 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:06:50 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=12341#comment-42721 Just wanted to share some interesting links with everyone concerning some impressive fuel cell technology projects that are up and running. "New sewage gas station in Orange County, CA may be world's first" http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/orange_county&id=8310315 Note the Honda Clarity FCV (fuel cell vehicle) driving in the video. Looks ready to me. Photos: World’s largest fuel cell park is open for business http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/photos-worlds-largest-fuel-cell-park-is-open-for-business/10391 This is the USA's developed technology in Asia??? Why not in the USA? Bill Gates: It’s ‘Crazy’ How Little Is Invested in Clean-Tech http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/29/bill-gates-its-crazy-how-little-is-invested-in-clean-tech/ Just wanted to share some interesting links with everyone concerning some impressive fuel cell technology projects that are up and running.

“New sewage gas station in Orange County, CA may be world’s first”
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?sectio n=news/local/orange_county&id=8310315

Note the Honda Clarity FCV (fuel cell vehicle) driving in the video. Looks ready to me.

Photos: World’s largest fuel cell park is open for business
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intellig ent-energy/photos-worlds-largest-fuel-ce ll-park-is-open-for-business/10391

This is the USA’s developed technology in Asia??? Why not in the USA?

Bill Gates: It’s ‘Crazy’ How Little Is Invested in Clean-Tech
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/29/b ill-gates-its-crazy-how-little-is-invest ed-in-clean-tech/

]]> By: zemix http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/03/30/americas-path-to-alternative-energy-runs-through-brazil/comment-page-1/#comment-42698 zemix Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:14:15 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=12341#comment-42698 Well, Regina, I think it would do you good to come down here and take a peak to see what Brazil is really about. I am a journalist who had to leave the country or else go to jail or tortured (as you people do with your prisoners in Guantanamo),because of the military coup and subsequent regime that your government helped finance and articulate. We are now beggining to have our voice heard, thank God, and we don't really need any more patronizing, thank you. Well, Regina, I think it would do you good to come down here and take a peak to see what Brazil is really about. I am a journalist who had to leave the country or else go to jail or tortured (as you people do with your prisoners in Guantanamo),because of the military coup and subsequent regime that your government helped finance and articulate. We are now beggining to have our voice heard, thank God, and we don’t really need any more patronizing, thank you.

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