Is energy technology being supressed?

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Originally Posted by Cloud

I think the more pressure and innovation that can come from grassroots research and implementation, the better.

Learn why the Silicon Valley could be so successful. One factor that destroys innovation is money men. People who could not understand because spread sheets cannot measure innovation. In the Silicon Valley, a solution to ignorant money men was venture capitalists; people who took risk because they recognized innovation. Another example was destruction of innovation in Xerox PARC by Xerox bean counters. 'Must reading' for anyone who would understand by first learning from history - "Fumbling the Future".

Another technique opposed by business school types was to work with your 'enemies'. These bean counter types (like a mental midget president), instead, invent enemies. The enemy was not that other corporation. The enemy is the unknown. An early example of how that enemy was attacked was the Compaq EISA consortium with 50 other companies (including every other major PC manufacturer except IBM) to replace the ISA bus. (Same business model eventually created the PCI bus.) Yes, that EISA bus did not make it. But the Silicon Valley (and its suburbs) were learning how to innovate.

Ironically, what drove these new innovation concepts occurred when Estridge (father of the IBM PC) was driven out by MBAs; replaced with a great hater of innovation - Cannavino. Read "Big Blues".