I heard it mentioned that in Norway it is common knowledge that Norway is world-famous for having invented the cheese knife. I don’t know if it is so or even if they did invent the cheese cutter, but I know that I have never heard anyone say: ” Hey did you know that a Norwegian genius invented this?”
The story is good to remember when politicians use the the trick of comparing our own state of things with other countries.

Very often in the energy debates in Denmark it is noted that Denmark is in the absolute front when it comes to research, biofuels, windpower etc. But when digging through the international mediascape for news about cutting edge green technologies, how come the genius in the class never speaks out?

Right now we are having a fierce debate about how not to meet the EU-Commissions regulations on biofuel. Politicians can´t agree on wether we should invest taxpayers money in first- or second generation ethanol plants while the americans and are building new high tech plants with help from our experts today. We thought that windmill business belonged to Denmark, and it has due to historical reasons, but the huge US-companies, Siemens and others are also in the business now. I am afraid the truth is that we are dreaming.
Today´s top energy story from NBC was that Sweden now has reached consensus that the country should outphase fossil fuel by 2020. Link.