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To: Ilaine who wrote (102823)	5/16/2001 10:32:10 PM
From: robnhood	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

I like solar, and was even thinking of buying Siemens. Along with water, I think solar will be big. If some money is tossed around that way from the Gov't , great advancements will be made.

To: Ilaine who wrote (102823)	5/17/2001 12:27:21 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Years ago I had a job as an assistant on a photo shoot. We were working for a landscape architect who had done a landscape job at corporate headquarters for Mobil. We needed to get on the roof of the building in order to shoot the landscape from up high. We went through some pretty elaborate security to get inside the building (it was somewhere off the Capital beltway). This was 20 years ago when most corporate offices only had a couple rent a cops, these guys had metal detectors and electronic chemical snifters that could sniff out plastic explosives. I guess there was some concern about terrorism there because they were a big oil company and they were near Washington, DC. At any rate, after an hour of BS we finally get up on the roof and guess what we saw? Row after row of solar panels. The whole roof was full of them. I remember the photographer and I remarking of how hypocritical it was of them, because back then we were certain it was the oil companies that lobbied against any kind of alternative energy research that might be funded by the government. I told this story just recently to a friend of mine who is "the windmill guy" out in Northern California. He's a meteorologist that consults the alternative energy companies. He said, "Oh yeah, the oil companies have been funding alternative energy studies for years and years and they've even had divisions within their own companies to see if there is anything viable there." So you think they might finally be ready to eat their own lunch? -ggg- BTW I pass by that Solarex plant all the time. The whole side of the building is a giant solar panel.