Re: GP: renewable energy comany?

[Ron Byrd <byrdelc@directcon.net>]

I personally (this is my opinion not corporate propaganda!) 
think that a renewable energy business large enough to support a MBA graduate
in today's economy is not going to be profitable and sustainable. Unless
it is well diversified in all types of energy markets. A lot of renewable
energy business rely on government imposed policies and subsidies. A good
renewable business plan needs to be profitable on its own without the aid
of government grant programs. A basis for reoccurring revenues needs to
be established from the beginning or the business will fail a soon as the
grants are no longer available.

The easiest way to establish a renewable energy business would be to focus on developing countries where there is no existing infrastructure. It seems like a lot of people feel there is going to be a sustainable market there someday. That is if they can afford it. The hardest, yet most rewarding route would be to compete with the USA energy industry and try to manage a grid power business that has a reoccurring revenue plan. Establish the company in such a way that it becomes attractive to a larger firm and sell it when the time is right. Have you ever read the book "How owns the Sun"?

Take your profits from energy and invested it in water. How does this sound? "Got Air"?

I am not trying to be funny. I am only making a point that everything we do has to have some kind of economics associated with it. Someone has to make money or it will not happen. It seems to me that nothing in life is free anymore.

This is a resent article placed in the Houston Chronicle.
http://cnniw.yellowbrix.com/pages/cnniw/Story.nsp?story_id=28328935&ID=cnniw&amp;scategory=Energy%3AAlternative&amp;

I don't know why the author wrote it. Maybe they wish to put down renewables because they have an interest in a gas company or something like that. It does drive home the message that renewables are more expensive than traditional sources of energy. And if we want them then we will have to pay for them. The highlight of this article is at the end when the author says "Of course, things could change. There could be a breakthrough in renewable energy technology. Or the price of natural gas could soar well above its current rate and stay there forever".

We had a severe gas shortage in the USA in 2000 that drove gas prices way up. Since this is a finite resource it is possible it will happen again, regardless of what Rush Limbaugh thinks. I am betting we will run out of fossil fuel first. 

This site has lots of pessimistic views about our future. Are their predictions true? 
http://www.dieoff.org/

Maybe you could share some of your thoughts with us entrepreneurs.
--
Ron Byrd
Vice President
Sunstar Precision Energy Corporation
http://www.specbyrd.com
" We turn sunlight into SPEC energy "