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Research firm Strategy Analytics projects that global installations of concentrated photovoltaic technologies, which use lenses, mirrors or other optics to concentrate sunlight and direct it in to solar cells, will nearly triple every year for the next four years.
Solar Christmas lights not worth the cost
3:00PM 12/09/2009
Santa had it right when he went with Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, as the only light on his sleigh.
After almost a week of fidgeting around with solar LED lights, I've given up on trying to have a "green" string of Christmas lights on my house. They won't light up, no matter how much sun they...

At a recent panel discussion put on by The Indus Entrepreneurs, everyone agreed that the residential solar-panel market will grow by leaps and bounds in 2009 and 2010. I blogged about the possibility that wholesale solar panel prices in residential actually might rise again as a result of demand,...
President Obama is having a job summit on Thursday, gathering 130 business leaders, mayors and others to help figure out how to get the 15.7 million unemployed people in America back to work.
As someone who was laid off 18 months ago, I have some simple advice for the group: Give job training for...

On a recent trip down to Silicon Valley from San Francisco, I got a chance to sit down for an extended discussion with Brian Hinman. He is one of a growing number of A-list venture capitalists who have jumped the fence from IT into alternative energy and greentech ventures. Oak Investment Partners...
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Most Actives
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| 12.69 | -0.15 -1.17% | 52.28M | |
| 2.39 | -0.02 -0.83% | 45.92M |
% Gainers
| 5.90 | +1.00 +20.41% | 25.32M | |
| 10.95 | +1.72 +18.63% | 23.39M | |
| 10.07 | +1.47 +17.09% | 3.66M | |
| 4.01 | +0.57 +16.57% | 807,740 |
% Losers
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