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• Report this Comment On October 08, 2009, at 1:55 PM, lomaxlovescrocs wrote:

  Supply and demand mechanisms is an useful capitalistic tool, that is for sure. You have to understand that 7 billion people lives on Earth and there is often no way for most commodities to meet demand for all of us. One hundred years ago we have no problem with shortages unless it has to do with bad weather , diseases, or things like that. For fossil fuels, it is already a given that we will keep running into shortages or what we rather call as shocks. So pricing mechanisms based on supply and demand is losing some of its reveleance. A change of thinking or thinking outside the box is now in order. Proft is considered a tangible value, but there will be a new kiind of profit that is intangible which can be translated into "profitable savings". If a commodity keeps running into a shortage, we do not only replace it wtih something else but just add to it. That is why utilities, for instance, can no longer use the argument about presently low fossil fuels as a reason for not adopting higher priced green or alternate energy. In other words, if we delay on alternate energy, we will pay unnecessarily more for fossil fuel due to recurring shortages or shocks. In today's age, it is becoming more prudent to diversify into new sources of energy in order to stall or delay the next shortage of the ever dwindling fossil energy sources. As matter of fact, our economy is not paralyzed because of financial misgivings but more of the inevitable future oil shocks as result of continued apathiness toward increasing sources of alternate energy. Intangible values is an area that we are constantly ignoring at ever greater costs. Profits or tanglibel values is no longer the only game in town. Intangible values may not seem profitable , but they often produces great savings in the long term. This is something that is difficult if not impossible to persuade certain players to understand and base future strategies upon. We are fortunate to be able to undertake financial expedient routes around the swelling issues that will not go away anytime. I dont believe that we can keep doing it expediently for much longer.. In conclusion, we better start to learn how to invest for longer term savings , sometimes. I dont think that we can keep fooling ourselves that we have to wait for the next shock to justify returning to alternate energy for a quick buck. This is not how it is supposed to work for all of us in this area anymore. We got to stop kidding ourselves.

• Report this Comment On October 08, 2009, at 2:12 PM, lomaxlovescrocs wrote:

  There is one issue that nags me the most about alternate energy . Alternate energy is bound to require vast swaths of real estate even including rooftops to site or house the alternate energy infrastructure. A fossil fuel fired powerplant or a nuclear plant requires much smaller footprint to generate a gigawatt a hour. it requires square miles to site either wind or solar powerplant of simiiliar equivalent. In case you are wondering, we already have 400 nuclear powerplants, tens of thousand coal powerplants, reservoir/dams, oil/ natural gas powerplants in the world, yet it serves only a fraction of the world's population. The rest of the population depends on locally made charcoal or bricks made of cowdung. The whole energy picture is so vast to picture inside anyone's head. With the global climate change looming nearer and our continued apathiness toward alternate energy, it tells me that people continue to lack any sense of urgency about preserving our Earth or our low lying population centers. Those are vast liabilities awaiting to arrive, yet we continue to be fixated on the equiblrium of supply/demand mechanisms or those tangible opporunities or so called crisis investing. This is a wrong time to look for such ill-mannered profit opporunities in the face of the looming enviromnental disruption. Doesnt anyone really understand that a mere dozen of gigawatt manufacturing capacity wont do much to stave off the disaster that is certain to come. We still havent stopped buring firewood just because we call it unsequestered carbon as opposed to coal as sequestered or soemthing like that... We have to stop using evasive arguments to justify our continued ways of living that has to be halted immediately. There is simply too many of us liviing on Earth. There is no escape pods that will take us to another habitable planet anytime soon .. Get real.. Damn the profits,,, full speed ahead!

• Report this Comment On October 08, 2009, at 2:19 PM, lomaxlovescrocs wrote:

  Warren Buffet is not about to save our Earth if that is what you are trying to say to us... Just forget about him and get back to solving our problems through investments for greater intangible benefits for all. Profits can wait. We are not going to build Rome overnight.. Alternate energy will require decades of growth. I see no reason why we cannot tear down fossil fuel powerplants and replacing them with alternate energy if that is what is not in your mind. Something is really wrong with your thinkings.. Why is it that you are preaching such kinds of investments that will do nothing but keep us ever more miserable as time passes. What ever happens to energy independence or healthier lifestyles for all?? I dont want to give you any more of our sick, weak, and tired people..

• Report this Comment On October 08, 2009, at 2:25 PM, lomaxlovescrocs wrote:

  I thought that being stuck in traffic to work and back home is bad enough only to find ourselves adding ever new layer of problem on it over and over again dailiy. I still do not see America solving much of our problems despite new innovations showing up daily. Our problems grew old and yet never die. Something is not right about that. , dont you agree? This present downturn is quite unbelievable, yet we are still not doing anything to stave off future predictable problems that is yet to come ahead. Is it because most of us are still so fixated on tangible profitable opporunities when we should also look at enhancing our intangible opporunities that will benefit us in the future and stave off future problems .

• Report this Comment On October 08, 2009, at 2:33 PM, QwertyHero wrote:

  Hey - I have an idea - rather than prefacing EVERY stock you discuss with "This is not a list of stocks to buy" or "These stocks are not reccomendations" YOU ACTUALLY RECCOMEND A STOCK TO BUY!

  I mean, isn't that the POINT???

• Report this Comment On October 09, 2009, at 7:17 PM, rfaramir wrote:

  I suspect that actual recommendations are NOT the point of these articles. They are generally useful tidbits that may educate you on certain points of investing wisdom or give insight into a sector or company or technology. In this particular article you get some of both: (a) general pointers in small cap investing and (b) insight into alternative energy and particularly solar.

  Why would you expect to get a real investment recommendation, backed by the author's public reputation for free?

  That's what the paid investor newsletters are for. And which is why they are pitched. People like you come here wanting recommendations, so Fool.com authors entice you by showing that they have some wisdom to share (by giving you some free) and hoping you purchase a newsletter subscription to really satisfy you.

  I'm personally a happy subscriber to Hidden Gems, and I read a lot of the free articles, too. By better understanding the point of these free articles you can better enjoy them (or at least read with less irritation), but if you really want to satisfy your desire for investment recommendations, buy a subscription.

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