Q adn A: Bob Hertzberg

Bob Hertzberg was once one of the top political leaders of the San Fernando Valley - community activist, speaker of the California Assembly, close adviser to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Harrison Sheppard in the Daily News.

And as someone who helped craft the state's laws, he learned firsthand how unfriendly they can be to business - even for firms on the cutting edge of environmental technology.

So after he lost his Los Angeles mayoral bid in 2005, Hertzberg and longtime business partner Ed Stevenson founded their solar-power firm G24i more than 5,000 miles away - in rainy Cardiff, Wale