Posted by: JaredFurtado on Oct 20, 2011

By Steve Leone, Associate Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com

New Hampshire, U.S.A. -- It's the middle of October, and the solar industry is on life support. Evergreen has died. SpectraWatt is buried. And Solyndra's eulogy has made mention of the black plague of federal financing. Meanwhile, ethanol is counting its days and second generation biofuels
are DOA. And wind? If it's not dying, it's on a killing spree taking with it every bird in sight.

OK. So this isn't the reality. But in many circles, it's the perception. And as we all know, perception can quickly turn into reality. With that unfortunate truth in mind, there is the realization that all renewables need to chart an alternate course, and perhaps tell a different story. In a sense, they need to convince the same people who have happily written their obituaries that they are the key - not to our environmental concern, but to our security worries.

Renewables are going rogue, and they're coming with firepower.

That firepower is being wielded by the American military. Yes, the very military industrial complex President Eisenhower warned us about 50 years ago may lead us out of the energy crisis President Carter alerted us to more than three decades ago.

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