Burning Energy

About the coming renewable energy boom?

I read something on the motley fool about how the big stock market boom of the last decade was the internet. I also read that the coming clean green renewable energy boom will be bigger than the internet by an order of magnitude. This means a multiple of 10. What does it mean by this do you think? Does it mean that stocks will go up 10x their value or will there just be 10x more companies than the internet ever had? What does it mean?

Public Comments

1. 10x more companies -- most of which will fail. but some will go up 10x their value. you just can't tell which.
2. There won't be a ten fold increase in companies. More likely you will see fewer larger companies due to the capital investment of developing new technology. It's a finite market, stocks will peak higher than they are and there's no reason they won't hold, but by a magnitude of ten might be optimistic. A ten fold increase in application isn't unreasonable though, but it's replacing the fossil fuel market which is demand driven. The price of a wind turbine doesn't fluctuate like oil, so it's a low risk, low return investment.
3. Well, if you just look up on youtube you'll find 100s of people trying all sorts of different things to find the best solution to renewable energy. Most of them are probably gonna fail but most importantly some of them might succeed... And the success might spawn off a new revolution in renewable energy.
4. It simply means that there will be even more people out there trying to separate you from your hard-earned cash in exchange for pie-in-the-sky concepts.