{"id":1863,"date":"2011-06-24T09:57:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/from-4-to-40-solar-companies-in-georgia-james-marlow-solar-summit.html"},"modified":"2011-06-24T09:57:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:57:57","slug":"from-4-to-40-solar-companies-in-georgia-james-marlow-solar-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/from-4-to-40-solar-companies-in-georgia-james-marlow-solar-summit.html","title":{"rendered":"From 4 to 40 solar companies in Georgia &mdash;James Marlow @ Solar Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"James Marlow started the\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/06\/last-day-for-advance-rate-at-solar-summit.html\">\nGeorgia Solar Summit<\/a> by saying\nin a few years we&#8217;ve gone from four to forty solar companies in Georgia, and\nwe should:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/00602215670692881412\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jV0U3fsQpVU\/S2s5l_dg3fI\/AAAAAAAAAAc\/0-SxQjhwYzs\/S220\/James+Marlow+Photo-1.jpg\"><\/a>\n&#8220;Stop talking about what we&#8217;re going to do in the future,\nand start talking about what we&#8217;re going to do in 100 days.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\nHe directly challenged Gov. Deal and the legislature.\n<p>\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;This is about goodness and light, and sound economics.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe next speaker (didn&#8217;t get his name, sorry) ran through some statistics,\nincluding:\n<ul>\n<li>\n93,502 U.S. solar workers: doubled since 2009\n<li>\n26% growth\n<li>\nNo other industry is growing like this.\n<\/ul>\nA telling comparison:\n<ul>\n<li>\n1GW nuclear power station takes 10 years to build.\n<li>\nIn one month Germany installed 2GW of solar last June.\n<\/ul>\nGermany, which is far north of Georgia.\nGeorgia has far more sun.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Marlow started the Georgia Solar Summit by saying in a few years we&#8217;ve gone from four to forty solar companies in Georgia, and we should: &#8220;Stop talking about what we&#8217;re going to do in the future, and start talking about what we&#8217;re going to do in 100 days.&#8221; He directly challenged Gov. Deal and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,14,558,23,24,4250],"tags":[372,969,8704,8701,8781,4314,788,4313,4312,847,753,4315,46,8737,8714,2254],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-economy","category-germany","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-southeast-solar-summit-24-june-2011","tag-atlanta","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-georgia","tag-germany","tag-goodness","tag-growth","tag-installation","tag-james-marlow","tag-jobs","tag-legislature","tag-light","tag-nathan-deal","tag-nuclear","tag-solar","tag-sun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-u3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}