Solar World Round Up - The Fed, The Economy - No Duh?

When Ben Bernanke said today, "The prospects for a return to growth in the near term appear good," the stock market lurched forward and I said no duh! (Article linked above)

When his European Central Bank President counter part Jean-Claude Trichet replied, "I am a little bit uneasy when I [hear] that, because we have some green shoots here and there, we are already saying, 'well, after all, we are close to back to normal',"...

I would like to take both men's heads and bang them together. It's not a coincidence that Trichet refered to the signs of growth as "some GREEN shoots" yo morons your subconscious is trying to tell you something...dear lord help these idiots please.

When is the Status Quo going to WAKE UP and start investing in the future. Can't they see the hand writing on the wall. He fellas, look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a SAFE, FREE, ENERGY SOURCE.



How long do we have to wait for these idiots these captains of industry to break out of their same old routines? When is man kind going to get its head out of the ground. But this is the way we always have done things Paul - dig in the ground and blow up the mountains for coal, oil, gas and uranium.

Cue Carlos Mencia's De, De, Deee. Bullshit I cry the industrial revolution and the dirty fuel driven economy has only been around for a HUNDRED years. But it's done a Century's worth of damage to our ecology, eco-system, and health. Wake up Geniuses - oh and investors - uhh look below - you might want to get in EARLY - you stupid freakin' clowns!

Here is Today's(!) Solar World Round Up
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Solar Thermal Heats Up
Worldwatch Institute
Solar thermal energy produced enough energy globally in 2007 to meet the equivalent heating needs of 15 percent of US households. ...

PG&E Wins Approval for Solar Pact With BrightSource
San Jose Mercury News
PG&E will get power from a 110-megawatt solar-thermal station scheduled to be online by July 2012 and from a 200- megawatt solar-thermal station to be ready ...

Altech Solar Showcases Live Installation Of Solar Thermal System ...
International Business Times (press release)
Altech Solar has set its sights to be in the global forefront of adoption of alternative energy sources, focusing its extensive expertise in solar thermal ...

Solar Thermal Heating: Quietly Ramping Up
Reuters
By Amy Westervelt - Earth2Tech Solar thermal heating is like the good kid in the group: It might not be as cool as solar PV for electricity or those massive ...

Heliofocus harnesses the power of wind and sun for electricity
VentureBeat
heliofocus is taking solar thermal energy one step further — by adding wind. The system, described in a flattering profile on Greentech Media, ...


Using solar heat to power air conditioning
Los Angeles Times
The gas company has been checking out competing solar-thermal cooling technologies from two companies to see which would work best on the roofs of ...

Calif Regulators Approve PG&E-brightsource Solar Power Contracts
CNNMoney.com
The contracts allow Pacific Gas & Electric Co. of San Francisco to buy 310 megawatts of power from two solar-thermal power plants built in the California ...


Mega Event – Australia New Zealand Solar Energy Society 47th ...
By mudassir
Solar09 will provide great opportunity to delegates present there so that they can learn from Olivier Drucke, president of the European Solar Thermal Energy Foundation. His speech will reveal secrets how policy-making has facilitated ...

NewNet News - Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Californian solar ...
By newnet
PG&E won the Calfornia Public Utilities Commission's approval alongside BrightSource Energy. The plants will reportedly use BrightSource's solar thermal technology in the plants, the first of which is due to come online in July 2012. ...
New Energy World Network

PG&E-BrightSource deal for solar energy OKd : Alanat News
By poster
PG&E won the commission's approval for two contracts with BrightSource Energy, one of several companies planning large-scale solar plants in the Southern California desert. The plants will use BrightSource's version of “solar thermal” ...

ReneSola shares jump over 15 percent after winning $706M solar ...
By Bureau News
"We're very interested to explore offshore wind, tidal energy and solar thermal to generate renewable power in India," Astonfield Management Inc co-chairman and director Sourabh Sen said. China promises solar power subsidies in effort ...

Germany Turns On World's Biggest Solar Power Project – Spiegel ...
By paderbornersj
This week, two of Germany's most important solar energy projects came online — the second biggest solar power project in the world and one of the first solar thermal “power towers.” The projects are part of the country's plan to provide ...

Solar Thermal Heating Up Sharply | Worldwatch Institute
The most mature of solar technologies solar thermal heating harnesses the sun's energy for domestic water heating space heating swimming pool heating and ...