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Betamax was superior to VHS. But VHS won in the marketplace. Bloomberg says the same is happening with Concentrated Solar Power vs. photovoltaic panels. Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is looking more and more like a dead-end, as the Chinese back traditional photovoltaic and $8 billion of such projects planned for the US may switch [...] Tony Bennett unloads on the Howard Stern show, with hugely anti-war statements. ‘They flew the plane in, but we caused it. Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.’ ‘But who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don’t make a right.’ Bennett also said [...] Kinde Durkee, treasurer for well over one hundred Democratic politicians in California, was recently arrested on federal charges for misappropriating funds from state assembly member Jose Solorio. Other Democratic politicians, who were her clients, quickly checked their bank accounts and discovered that major sums appeared to be missing. Most prominently, Sen. Dianne Feinstein says [...] “Orderly default” in Greece? Good luck. It’s not if Greece defaults but when. S&P just downgraded Italy None of the fundamental economic problems in Italy or Europe or anywhere else have been addressed … let alone fixed. So the problem will only spread. Fraud largely caused Italy’s – and Europe’s, and the entire world’s – [...] May many other companies follow. “What you need to know, not what you want to hear” Testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere at the Hearing ‘Has Merida Evolved? Part One: The Evolution of Drug Cartels and the Threat to Mexico’s Governance.’ Excerpt (via Zenpundit ….Something very old historically, and at the same time very new, is [...] Rep. Gabrielle Giffords hosted a solar summit last Wednesday which discussed solar power policy goals for Arizona. Two fascinating points emerged from the discussions. First, many thought the early projections for distributed solar in Arizona were overly ambitious and could never be met. The opposite has occurred. Such plans are hugely popular. Second – [...] The Oklahoman is not impressed with Obama’s jobs plan. Welfare for the rich, it seems to me. Washington is paying $2,571 per resident of three Oklahoma hamlets for broadband connections. These citizens (fewer than 600 altogether) won’t get the money themselves. It goes to large telecom firms. But please don’t call that corporate welfare. Surely [...] SunSaluter: $10,000 Winner of the EcoLiving 2011 Student Leadership Award from Scotiabank's EcoLiving on Vimeo. This is truly inspiring. Eden Full, a 19-year-old Princeton University mechanical engineering student has developed a non-toxic, cheap, recyclable device made out of metal and bamboo that allows solar panels to follow or track the Sun without the use [...] Bruce Krasting has done some serious digging into the Solyndra bankruptcy and says a Delaware corporation set up weeks before the bankruptcy filing appears to have bought AR and inventory from Solyndra. A commenter on Zero Hedge opines: The purpose of these transactions should be pretty clear. A politically well connected investor is draining [...] |  | ||||
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