Greene Shoots: Can new energy thrive in a market age?

Leonard Greene ponders.

About a year ago, back when we thought the earth we were standing on was really there… I happened upon an op-ed article that had appeared in the May, 2005 issue of the Washington Post. Titled "The Courage to Develop Clean Energy," its authors, Jeffrey Immelt and Jonathan Lash, CEO of General Electric Company and president of the World Resources Institute respectively, opined that a new clean energy economy would require three essential components. First, the brainpower to develop new technology; second, a market that makes clean technologies profitable; and third, a strong . . .