Nov. 29, 2011 With all the bad press from the federal bailout of Solyndra, one fact was forgotten. Sales of Solyndra’s alternative design dropped, leading to its bankruptcy, because of a glut of polysilicon, the semiconductor used in the most common type of solar panel. In fact, polysilicon’s price plunged by 93% since 2009. Standard [...]

July 5, 2011 I hate to bring up this issue on Independence Weekend when we should celebrate the many great things about America. But we are falling behind the rest of the world in one area of great importance to us, and that is, clean energy and energy efficiency. The U.S. has an estimated 120 [...]

April 19, 2011 This blog has provided many reasons to go “green”, both for companies, as well as the nation and the world. Here is another that has not been mentioned yet: a serious attempt to go green will spur technical innovation, new inventions, and cut costs on others. We have seen this already with [...]