The key is going to be innovation. Gods know it sounds corny, but I have empathy, having lived through one of the highest unemployment rates in postwar America - Rockford, Illinois in 1982 had an unemployment rate of 22.1 percent. ....because I would rather see us reduce the consumption of imported oil than have to send American boys to fight in the Persian Gulf. - John B. Anderson
Here in Switzerland, kids are coming out of school and there's no jobs...that's not right, they are our future, we should invest in them. "Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
US is doing fairly well technology wise investing to military and specialized applicationd but production rates and actual employment of photovoltaics is clearly being negleted in US.