Green Projects and Tech

I've been looking at job postings for the past 6 months or so. I've been a "tech" worker for 20+ years now. I started doing software work in the relatively green field days of the dot com bubble time.

There's a "new" category of tech, green energy gizmos, like batteries. Anybody can build a fancy battery system. It's a moderate-skill level maker project really. Now, though, oodles of money are flowing into the business. So an electrical engineer or an embedded software engineer can now jump into that industry and start making significantly more than they do in "tech". The job postings I've seen are $50,000 more than equivalent tech embedded engineer jobs.

Tech is going to get squeezed over the next couple of years--it's old. Jobs will go to Asia.

"Green" is going to be interesting. It's really an old school economy situation in the US. Heavy industry. Construction jobs. Factories.

It will be really difficult to compete in the battery, inverter, green gizmo arena though. There's literally no barrier to entry.

A product that strongly caters to DIY'ers might be a good option. Run the business in the gray market and avoid regulatory overhead it might work as long as some of that funny money can still be had from the feds.