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To: H James Morris who wrote (107116)	8/15/2000 11:11:28 AM
From: Randy Ellingson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164685

I currently have Amzn 30 2000 calls, and I'm jet-lagged.:-( I still own AMZN, and now have a boring 26% annualized gain on those shares. I added a few shares of RATL this AM, and a few of APWR last week. I love having a decade of time on my side -- if these companies continue to grow, I believe I'll do well. And no market timing required. >AstroPower, the only integrated solar-energy firm to be traded publicly, has come up with a very-high-speed manufacturing process which it calls “silicon-film” making, and which is akin to the “float glass” method used to make window panes. This should halve the cost of wafers, bringing the technology’s price within spitting distance of its rivals. From what I've heard, this process is still in the fine tuning stage -- I think they're producing, but yields or other costs make it thus far less profitable than the process which uses scrap Si from the sc industry. Randy