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What keeps the clean energy economy moving from Denmark to Texas?

Installers and people who train them!

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Again, I was in Denmark’s and the UNFCCC’s version of Disneyland, so I wasn’t going to risk not getting the audio, even it if meant getting too close.  This is not my best video, but I’m still posting it because it’s important to hear from the people who are doing the nuts and bolts of the clean energy economy.

This is Danish-American Lisa Ann Cairns, Ph.D., Vice President of Texas-based ONTILITY, which “connects the green economy down to the ‘last mile’ ” and is a Dept. of Energy grantee for solar training:

And yes, they ask for efficiency audits BEFORE doing solar.

One Response to What keeps the clean energy economy moving from Denmark to Texas?

  1. Leif says:

    Good job Joe. Sound is more important than video. You are learning fast. Lisa Ann is obviously another employee of the green economy as well as you. I do not envy you the hours in line going nowhere, hopefully it is not indicative of the whole big picture. The united States indeed needs to hang it’s head in shame with respects to our responses to the GW crises but it is not without president. We were slow entering WW II but in the end we did manage to redeem ourselves, hopefully we have not dallied too long on this issue.