RE: Chu: Cleantech innovation race vs. China is America's 'Sputnik moment'
I hope America will wake up and rise to the challenge. Unlike some other people here
who can't read graphs and between the lines, I don't think, he (OBAMA, nor CHU) is to
blame for what happened in America last decade. We can safely say that you are not
playing for the second but the third place, unless, of course that sputnik moment
might well be functioning.
On an another note: China never claims anything, that's what's scary, that we all
should be afraid of (I live in EU, by the way, the second guy after China). You only
know that they have the supremacy, when it's done. And no, they don't use Visicalc
and Lotus 1-2-3 to realize all that. I should say that it's to the benefit of everybody
living on earth that they realize those things, first of course for themselves because
they are in a hurry to find solutions and they do it intelligently sometimes copying
what others doing as well. But hey, I can't blame them, if you've heard the news two
days ago: "The city of Shangai suspended work at factories and construction sites
and kept vehicles off the streets to ensure clean air" so they are in a hurry to have
those High Voltage Transmission lines to bring energy from thousands of miles away,
they need those power plants. If only we could have seen this 20 years ago, to sell
them power plants today.
