Eldridge Rieves: If alternative anything doesn't have nearly the value of what the free market already provides then no, it will not help in it's development. However, vision of potential (and realistic) profits, by those with an idea of how to make it happen as well as investors, will drive R&D of alteratives, in this case energy. This is going on right now. Celuosic ethanol is right around the corner, improving the marketability of using ethanol for fuel (without taking food out of peoples' mouths). LED lighting is starting to make inroads in the CFL market. In fact, there is a break-through in some energy source or product every week it seems. We DO NOT need to shoot ourselves in the foot by artificially making plentiful, mainstream sources of energy high just to drive development of new ones. As for kerosene, one of the first big marketers of it was Standard Oil, you know, the company that made it big in petroilium oil. They simply had vision to see what the next big ! thing would be. Without that vision, they would have eventually gone out of business. They didn't need government subsidies nor artificially high anything to make it happen. Because Japan, Brazil and Europe use much less oil, that means there are alternatives? That logic falls flat. Some alternatives work OK on small scales but are too expensive to replace oil, coal or natural gas on large scales....Show more
Russel Gajate: New markets are very important to the growth of a product line or business. There are ways to find out what people are searching for online, as well as other ways to measure trends. Using the Google keyword tool and Adwords tools, you can learn SOOOOOO much about your marketing possibilities. These tools will give you not only recent search activity, but also historical data to see trends over time.Using these tools alone, you can learn a lot to test new ideas and measure results....Show more
Jackson Esmiol: New markets means finding new uses! for existing products and selling into those markets. For ex! ample - the little set of drawers that sewers used for their needles, thread, etc. - at some point, someone thought, hey, folks with workbenches can use this for screws, nails, etc. and started selling them in hardware stores - existing product, new market.
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