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For a personal perspective on CTO '07, see Steve Montoya's post in this blog.

Renewables Lecture Recap: Opportunities, Companies to Follow

Last Saturday, I attended an interesting Clean Tech workshop sponsored by Bay Area chapters of NSHMBA and SHPE.  As with most of François Xavier Rongère lectures, this event was "sold-out".  By popular demand, I am posting some of his main talking points.

The current oil shock, as painful as it is, will trigger structural changes in the economy to address global warming.

Some see three-figure, and-rising oil prices as a way of limiting greenhouse emissions. No doubt conservation will increase. However, the more I think about it, the more I realize that all that high prices can achieve can be done much better with sensible carbon taxes. As a result, governments ought to accelerate the required transformation - or at least stop delaying it.