And I’m the only one who can get at it!

One of my favorite movies is "There Will Be Blood". What a wonderful display of greed, what a remarkable showing of hatred, what an amazing insight into the power of natural resources. Made me want to become an oil man. Perhaps I still can [...]

One of the “heavy hitters” at Solar Power 2008 was Applied Materials. With a rather pimped out exhibition booth, they displayed their "Sun Fab" turnkey (sort of) production equipment. With a room full of installers, people were a little confused that they didn’t exactly SELL the panels, but they sold the equipment to MAKE [...]

Nearly every conversation I have about renewable technology, from solar to wind to geothermal, always goes from “it’s the next big thing” to “it’s too expensive for regular homeowners” to “once ‘they’ get the efficiency up and the cost comes down, then it will blow up". It’s frustrating. And, in spite of the buzz and [...]

As the world unanimously goes “uh oh” after seeing the stock charts on Wall Street, Iceland becomes the first country to legitimately teeter on bankruptcy as they nationalize their major financial institutions. Apparently, some cool kids, with their cocky Viking swagger and rebelious attitude against Dad’s fishing business, decided to invest in some [...]

Who knew that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 would include the extension of the renewable energy tax credit that is so necessary to maintain progress made thus far in the solar industry.  They kind of slipped that in there.  While the free market capitalist in me wants those unscrupulous banks to fail (and [...]