Clean Energy in Algiers and Tripoli

As part of my travels to New York City and Bermuda last week I had the pleasure of meeting clean energy stock legend Bill Paul.  There were so many interesting facets to that meeting that I won’t even try to list them.  But one thing that struck me hard was his advice that 2GreenEnergy work harder at “thinking globally.”  The reference here was not the global impact of renewable energy or electric transportation, which is obvious; Bill was saying the the financial world outside the US is much more important to the migration to clean energy than than the workings of Wall Street. 

“Do you know what’s happening in the stock markets of Algiers or Tripoli?” he asked without expectation, as though the answer might be yes.  I wasn’t anxious to appear an ignoramus, but to be honest, I didn’t even know there were stock markets in those places; I guess I thought local commerce was limited to cous-cous, exotic rugs, and trinkets for tourists. 

Bill went on, “Do you realize that the northern Sahara is the site of what will be the largest solar thermal operation on earth?” That actually came as no surprise; I’ve seen numerous presentations in which a tiny square of the desert will someday generate the power for the entire European continent. 

In any case, as I mentioned in an earlier post, 2GreenEnergy is actively developing a tight relationship with Bill which will, if nothing else, provide more insight into the working of renewables outside the confines of the US. Stay tuned.