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PaulusP on November 13, 2006 - 9:15am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Leanan

There is no link with the "King Coal and Big Oil ..." quote block.

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Leanan on November 13, 2006 - 9:28am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Thanks!  I think it's fixed now.
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Donal on November 13, 2006 - 4:55pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
"King Coal" and "Big Oil" seem to be accepted nicknames for the companies that dominate those industries, so I want to nominate a nickname for the industry that generates electricity from wind: "Mighty Wind."

Do we have any nicknames for solar and nuclear?

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DIYer on November 14, 2006 - 12:13am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
nicknames for solar

Ruddy Kilowatt? Sun Juice?

and nuclear?

Night Light? Mc-squared?

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Valuethinker on November 14, 2006 - 8:47am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
But you can name the top 10 oil companies operating in the US, or the world's top 10 coal companies (Peabody, Kennicott etc.).

You can even name the 'Big Solar', the world's top 10 solar cell producers (BP, Shell, a couple of Japanese firms).

It's hard to talk about a  'wind top 10'.

Do we mean turbine companies?  That's GE and Vesta and a Spanish co (whose name escapes me).

Do we mean wind operators?  Then that is the Danish utility, probably the German ones (E.On, RWE?), the Spanish one (Iberdrola).  In the US I think it is mostly independent operations (to capture the tax reliefs).

The reality is wind is just an enabling technology.

The 'Big Coal' and 'Big Oil' represent companies with locks on significant deposits of energy.  No wind company would have that lock-- wind is free and omnipresent.

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