Outbreak of optimism

What is it about UK journos that they invariably look for lead linings in every passing cloud, all while acting as stenographers for scare switch sites.  Is being an actual reporter, someone who discovers news as opposed to rewriting fluff, all that hard work?   

Three stories here to relieve the gloom. Peter Tertzakian is someone we feel like being a stenographer to, and his common sense approach would get printed in the UK press as often as, well, us for example. Maybe if we point people to this John Stewart video, he'll get heard more often. Here he is in print telling us the other side of the coin to the we're doomed view:

The big energy debate over the last few years has been around the concept of “peak oil.” There is little doubt that offsetting production declines and bringing more oil to hungry markets like China will challenge the upstream industry, but it’s time for the debate to also include discussion about “peak demand,” and even declining demand. In wealthy mature economies, the data is clearly starting to show it.

And one side of how demand is declining, and by a big potential number comes from Italy :

Solar electricity could compete, cost wise, with other sources of electricity in parts of Southern Europe, by as early as next year, according to an industry report released Monday

And why is photo-voltaic about to take off?  Lots of the reason is staring you in the face.  LCD display technology is broadly similar to PV.  But with TV now so cheap, Taiwanese manufacturers are seeing opportunity:

Beyond this, they are even talking about expanding into a new line of green business, a huge shift for them, which could be silicon-based LED or Solar ...

Optimism is profitable.  Fear eats the balance sheet.  When will UK business get that?