Someone needs to follow the money. There’s got to be tons of money to be had with this scam. Why is GE pushing “green” so hard? I have a feeling that the tons of money to be had will actually come from US - the taxpayer.
The simple truth is that in an age when our standard of living is so high that we can't even economically produce the things we want to consume, our economy relies more and more on the production and consumption of useless things. In essence, we "monetize" non-existent things and sell them as if they were actual products or services.
I would count collateralized mortgage bonds among these things, along with accounting services related to taxation. And the whole "ethanol fuel" hoax may be the best recent example, too.
Most of what we think of as "the green economy" is nothing more than an attempt by corporate giants like GE to sell products whose only "need" is related to government mandates that require people and industries to use them.