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To: marcos who wrote (46926)	8/10/2007 5:25:29 PM
From: Metacomet	Respond to of 78434

These guys are using printing presses to drive down costs... nanosolar.com

To: marcos who wrote (46926)	8/10/2007 7:02:20 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78434

Re metacomets thught. I think he was talking about photosynthesis-lol. Drinking and smoking-lol.

To: marcos who wrote (46926)	8/10/2007 9:33:08 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78434

Marcos, on a serious note-lol, sometimes I am playing the market and sometimes the stock. 05 to 06 was huge for me, but all I did mostly was ride metals proxy's up with wts on large cap mining stocks. When I think my proxy has about flattened out, I jump out. One way I measure that is to ask myself: How hard do I think it will be for the stock to double from here. If the answer is quite difficult, I sell. I like fundamental thinking, but I like it backed up by action. I have no idea where we go from here, but my thinking is the credit crunch and fear may slow things down for awhile? At the same time I am a big believer in the new world economy and the inherent weakness in the US dollar and US economy. I hope I see the market take off again soon, as I do not like sitting on the sidelines. I just felt the US is now spent fro a bit(i.e. the consumer is out of cash and cannot get more easily) and that could disrupt world growth for a few months. I have seen this pattern so many times in the past where day after day there are more sellers than buyers and the juniors get ground down. But I have my finger on the trigger if I spot something.

To: marcos who wrote (46926)	8/11/2007 1:21:49 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78434

So what happens if we intercept all that sunshine before it gets to the trees, fish, wind and water? Will all the other stuff go stale? hmmmm... I wonder of them all which is the most efficient? They say if you send a physicist/injunire to hell, and he can find a cool spot he can make energy on the heat difference and make air conditioning. Hell for them is maximum entropy. I figure bore a hole from the Santa Clausius' home to the equatorial line around the earth, and 'blow' air from South to north. If you make the hole in the right path, I believe it would be a spiral path in the northern hemisphere, going west. The air would move by planetary motion. So you put fans in the airstream and when the warm air gets to the NP, you pump the heat out of it and send the power south by conductor to your customers. the feuchyah.. coming to a sunlit meadow near you real soon now. 5:14 p.m., July 23, 2007-- Using a novel technology that adds multiple innovations to a very high-performance crystalline silicon solar cell platform, a consortium led by the University of Delaware has achieved a record-breaking combined solar cell efficiency of 42.8 percent from sunlight at standard terrestrial conditions. That number is a significant advance from the current record of 40.7 percent announced in December and demonstrates an important milestone on the path to the 50 percent efficiency goal set by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In November 2005, the UD-led consortium received approximately $13 million in funding for the initial phases of the DARPA Very High Efficiency Solar Cell (VHESC) program to develop affordable portable solar cell battery chargers. Combined with the demonstrated efficiency performance of the very high efficiency solar cells' spectral splitting optics, which is more than 93 percent, these recent results put the pieces in place for a solar cell module with a net efficiency 30 percent greater than any previous module efficiency and twice the efficiency of state-of-the-art silicon solar cell modules. As a result of the consortium's technical performance, DARPA is initiating the next phase of the program by funding the newly formed DuPont-University of Delaware VHESC Consortium to transition the lab-scale work to an engineering and manufacturing prototype model. This three-year effort could be worth as much as $100 million, including industry cost-share.