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Note ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1V
Green Jobs ............................................................................................................................................................. 1V
Green investment is opportunity for job creation ................................................................................................. 1V
Green jobs are already growing........................................................................................................................... 2V
Green investment will pick up ............................................................................................................................ 2V
There has been rapid growth and it will continue................................................................................................. 2V
Wind is a viable green power .............................................................................................................................. 2V
The wind industry is creating jobs ....................................................................................................................... 2V
Need government help............................................................................................................................................ 3V
Industry needs more government action .............................................................................................................. 3V
The federal government needs to make renewables reliable ................................................................................. 3V
The US needs to do a better job with current technology ..................................................................................... 3V
Strong legislation is needed or jobs won¶t be created ........................................................................................... 3V
Subsidies are necessary for the development of alternative energy ....................................................................... 3V
Tax incentives help the economy and the environment ........................................................................................ 4V
Subsidies drive the alternative energy industry .................................................................................................... 4V
Alternative Energy is Improving............................................................................................................................. 4V
Nano-engineering will make solar cells better ..................................................................................................... 4V
Nano-engineering will become even more efficient ............................................................................................. 4V
Nano-engineering will make alternative energy better ......................................................................................... 4V

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³Greening the Rustbelt,´ August 13, 2009, The Economist,
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14214855

Green investment presents new hope. The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Centre for American
Progress, a think-tank, estimated in June that the federal stimulus package and a climate bill would spur about $150
billion in spending on clean energy each year for the next decade. That spending, in turn, would create an estimated
2.5m jobs, from academic researchers to factory workers making wind turbines. ³This is an opportunity for
American ingenuity to renew the manufacturing base,´ argues Phyllis Cuttino of the Environment Group at the Pew
Charitable Trusts.

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³Greening the Rustbelt,´ August 13, 2009, The Economist,
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14214855

There are already signs of activity. The Great Lakes Wind Network, based in Ohio, helps local firms sell goods to
the wind business. Toledo remains one of the best examples of a town moving from the old economy to a newer one.
It has been a hub for the glass manufacturing since the 19th century. Thanks to innovations in solar technology at the
University of Toledo, it is now home to a cluster of firms such as Xunlight. State grants continue to help the
university hatch companies. The Regional Growth Partnership, a local business group, provides venture capital. In
Michigan despair has bred particularly bold action. In the past five years Jennifer Granholm, the Democratic
governor, has dangled more than $1 billion to attract alternative-energy firms, with about $700m in tax credits to
develop electric-car batteries. Impressively, Michigan had the third-highest number of clean-tech patents from 1999
to 2008, behind only California and New York, reckons Pew. That number may rise.

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Ýskar Garcia, August 10, 2009, ³Labor sec'y says green jobs hiring will pick up,´ Associated Press,
http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1179431.html?storylink=mirelated

îiring in the alternative energy industry will pick up in the next 12 months, though it will take more time before so-
called green-jobs will become a bigger part of the U.S. job market, Labor Secretary îilda Solis said Monday. "Once
you start seeing more investments made in our economy recovering, as we stabilize and we get people back to work,
then I think there'll be more interest in expanding," Solis said.

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Ýskar Garcia, August 10, 2009, ³Labor sec'y says green jobs hiring will pick up,´ Associated Press,
http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1179431.html?storylink=mirelated

Energy Secretary Steven] Chu said federal officials have yet to award more money to other projects because they
are reviewing proposals and want to make sure they pick the wisest possible investments. "We're moving," he said.
The alternative energy sector could spark a new "industrial revolution," with better prospects for minorities and new
training for workers with traditional vocational skills, Solis said. There has been rapid growth in the industry, but
employment in the green business still makes up only about half of one percent of all jobs.

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žohn Dorschner, žune 30, 2008, ³Twisting in the Wind,´ Miami Herald, http://www.miamiherald.com/602/v-
fullstory/story/700027.html

Clean and abundant wind power in vast stretches of America is not only far cheaper than solar, but as oil prices soar,
it's proving to be less expensive than natural gas, a prime source of the nation's power. At present, wind provides
only 1 percent of U.S. electricity, but a federal report predicts the wind could be providing 20 percent of American
power by 2030. "Wind is ready to go," says Christine Real de Azua of the American Wind Energy Association.

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³Becalmed,´ August 1, 2009, The Economist,
http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14140349
The AWEA¶s American Wind Energy Association] Liz Salerno notes that 2009 is still on track to be the industry¶s
second-best year ever. She adds that wind is contributing not only generating capacity, but also much-needed
manufacturing jobs. Nordex, a German company that is one of the world¶s biggest turbine manufacturers, recently
announced a new factory in Arkansas, creating 700 jobs in an economy that is shedding them by the hundreds of
thousands.VGE reported dismal results for its second quarter, but GE Energy, which includes the conglomerate¶s
wind business, was a bright spot, with profits up by 13% to $1.8 billion. It is establishing a new research facility in
Michigan, where the unemployment rate is 15%.

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³Renewable power industry says U.S. moving too slowly,´ August 10, 2009, Reuters (Reporting by Peter
Henderson. Editing by Robert MacMillan, Bernard Ýrr),
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN1049003820090811?sp=true

Executives from wind and solar, and other industries in the expanding world of "cleantech" argued utilities should
be required to buy much more renewable energy and warned that unless the federal government closes a hole in
climate legislation, the energy can't reach homes that need it.

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Steve Coll (president of New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute; and a staff writer
at The New Yorker magazine, reports on issues of intelligence and national security), March 13, 2009, "The Next
Energy Economy," The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/stevecoll/2009/03/the-next-energy.html

Also, because the sun does not shine all the time and the wind does not blow steadily, somebody has to work out
how to prevent the intermittent qualities of renewable electricity from messing up the reliability of electric service
up and down the lines. This, too, is a federal job.

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³Renewable power industry says U.S. moving too slowly,´ August 10, 2009, Reuters (Reporting by Peter
Henderson. Editing by Robert MacMillan, Bernard Ýrr),
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN1049003820090811?sp=true

Others agreed that the United States did not need new technology but a better effort at deploying what it has. "The
technology is there, scalability is the issue," said Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington.

 
 


   




³Renewable power industry says U.S. moving too slowly,´ August 10, 2009, Reuters (Reporting by Peter
Henderson. Editing by Robert MacMillan, Bernard Ýrr),
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN1049003820090811?sp=true

American Wind Energy Association Chief Executive Denise Bode said the market was already moving ahead of
targets for renewables in the federal bill. "This legislation has to be strong, or the jobs won't be there," she said in an
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Mona Hymel (Professor of Law at the žames E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona, University of
Texas, ž.D.), ³The United States' Experience with Energy-Based Tax Incentives: The Evidence Supporting Tax
Incentives for Renewable Energy,´ Social Science Research Network, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No.
06-21, April 2006 (page 25)
Studies evaluating the effectiveness of tax incentives for alternative or renewable fuel technologies indicate
subsidies have been necessary to the development of this industry. Entering into the energy industry with its deeply
entrenched infrastructure presents potential investors with difficult barriers. In fact, without the federal tax
incentives to keep its price competitive with conventional fuels, no market would exist for alcohol fuels, and thus,
no capital. The federal tax incentives were instrumental in overcoming the risk factor and establishing this industry.
Thus, tax incentives (or other incentives) are necessary to the development of alternatives.

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Mona Hymel (Professor of Law at the žames E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona, University of
Texas, ž.D.), ³The United States' Experience with Energy-Based Tax Incentives: The Evidence Supporting Tax
Incentives for Renewable Energy,´ Social Science Research Network, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No.
06-21, April 2006 (page 27)

Tax incentives can help increase the market for new energy efficient products by reducing their cost and lowering
the risk of production for manufacturers. As a result of tax incentives, the public benefits from lower energy use,
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Martin de Sa'Pinto, September 17, 2009, ³Green energy on a roll but experts warn of bubbles,´ Reuters,
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE58G4KE20090917?sp=true

At present government expenditure and subsidies are already a significant driver of the alternative energy industry.
"Some $500 billion has been focused on alternative energy... with a growing emphasis on energy efficiency," said
Sandy Christie of BlackRock Investment Management, UK.

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³The power of being made very small,´ žuly 4, 2009, The Economist,
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13941135

Nano-engineered materials will also play an important role in a more efficient generation of solar cells, according to
an exhibition by researchers at Imperial College, London, called ³A Quantum of Sol´, which opened this week at the
Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, also in London. Again, the desired effects are obtained by using
combinations of material produced at extremely small sizes. In this case, they are used to make ³multi-junction´
solar cells, in which each layer captures energy from a particular colour in the spectrum of sunlight. Overall, this is
more efficient than a conventional solar cell which converts energy from only part of the spectrum.

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³The power of being made very small,´ žuly 4, 2009, The Economist,
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13941135

Whereas conventional solar cells might turn 20% or so of the energy in sunlight into electricity, multi-junction solar
cells already have an efficiency of just over 40% and within a decade that could reach 50%, predicts Ned Ekins-
Daukes, a researcher at Imperial.

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³The power of being made very small,´ žuly 4, 2009, The Economist,
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13941135
These morphing composites could be used to produce more efficient turbine blades in wind and tidal generators, a
seminar at Bristol University¶s Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science was told this week. A
bistable composite capable of altering its aerodynamic profile rapidly when wind and current conditions changed
would help to remove unwanted stresses in the blades. That would increase the efficiency of the blades and extend
the working life of the generator systems they power, says Stephen îallett, a member of the Bristol team. Morphing
composites would mean, for instance, that tidal generators could be made smaller and would last longer, which
would make them more viable commercially. In this way many tiny changes in the science of materials could
generate a big future for renewable energy.