Being a light unto the nations.

I keep hearing Moonbats like Al Gore and Barack Hussein Obama tell the American people that the United States must become the leader in Alternate Energy. They don't have many ideas, just windmills, solar power, hydro cars, and hybrid cars. They don't tell us how to do it, only that the technology must be developed. Only one problem. Many of these technologies have already been developed. And who developed them? Russia? No. The US? No. Great Britain? No. Israel? Yes.

There are two stages in the life of any technology - development and implementation. According to analysts, Israel is becoming a world leader in developing clean technologies and, little by little, more of those technologies are being used to solve this country's own environmental challenges.

Isaac Berzin, one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the sciences last year due to his work on using algae to take greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere and convert them to fuel, told The Jerusalem Post that even if the technologies were not implemented here, just developing them here was enough.

"Being a light unto the nations is exactly the place of Israel - that is our role. Our knowledge is implemented elsewhere and that's a wonderful thing," said Berzin, who is putting together an energy policy analysis center at the IDC.

"Our strength is not implementation, but creation and innovation. For example, Ormat [a company that utilizes geothermal energy to generate power] has no installations here, but the technology was developed here and the training school is here," he said.

Berzin compared the cleantech boom to the hi-tech boom. Most of the software developed in Israel has been implemented elsewhere, he said.

Moreover, "Israel should be a world leader - creating the solutions the world is looking for. Investments are coming to Israel [as a result] and lots of jobs are created.

Solar markets have developed fastest in places with government incentives, Levy noted. The government recently approved a feed-in tariff for household production of solar energy where residents could sell electricity back the grid. National Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer has promised to build one solar plant a year for the next ten years as well.

Israel has long been a purchaser of its own water technologies, most of which emerged in response to local need, Levy said.

Levy also cited such companies as Shai Agassi's Better Place, which chose Israel as its first market for the electric car.

The government also has a clear role in helping to encourage implementation of cleantech locally, Levy said.

Since the 1970's Israel has been a leader in solar energy. If you look at the roof of any home in Israel you will see the solar water panels that provide hot water for the home. This was mandated in the 1970's and is standard on all new housing units. Israel is the per capita leader in the use of solar hot water systems with 90% of homes using them.

If you go to the Golan Heights you will see wind turbines all the way to the Syrian border where they stop. Again utilizing the best of what you have in order to produce energy. The people living in the area aren't complaining about these turbines. They see them as a viable solution for their energy needs.




It will take Barack Hussein Obama's plan 10 years to begin to have any effect. It will cost billions of dollars and we will get a white elephant in the process. Or we can do it right. We can drill here, drill now and work with our allies to build a better solution to our energy needs.