Green energy a poor investment for German company

IBD:
The CEO of Siemens AG, the German manufacturing giant, has been sent packing. Seems the board had it with his stewardship. Instead of making solid gains, he took the company down a green energy hole.

Peter Loescher was picked from Merck & Co. in May 2007 to lead Siemens out of a troubling time. What they got was an executive who made a bet on a trendy interest and didn't get the results that were expected of him.

"This weekend," Bloomberg News reported Monday, the company "lost patience after Loescher's expansion into green energy and expensive acquisitions led to a fifth profit-forecast cut."

Loescher was then dismissed on Wednesday.

He can't say he wasn't warned. He needed only to look at Spain, where attempts to create a green economy failed miserably.

Researcher Gabriel Calzada Alvarez at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos looked at the Spanish effort and found that for every green job that was created, 2.2 jobs were destroyed. Alvarez also discovered that for each green megawatt of energy brought on line, 5.28 jobs were lost elsewhere in the economy.

Italy, Denmark and other European nations have also had bitter experiences with green initiatives. So has Germany, which set out to produce 80% of its energy from green sources by 2050.
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Current green energy solutions are too inefficient to be profitable or competitive with other energy sources.   While it make sense to do research looking for a viable alternative source of energy, it does not make sense to invest in current solar or wind technology.  They may work in special situations, but they are a loser when having to compete with traditional energy.

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