Global Insolation Map...

You can zoom into the various regions.

Good link.

Lots of good technical info here on Solar Cells & Modules

Great Solar article from Triplepundit.

Solar Stocks: Wall Street Heavyweight or Punching Bag?

Kudos on the find to mgraffis of Yahoo.

Low Cost, High Efficiency Tandem Silicon Solar Cells

Wladek Walukiewicz, Joel Ager, and Kin Man Yu of Berkeley Lab have developed high-efficiency solar cells that leverage the well-established design and manufacturing technology of silicon cells while delivering the performance previously achievable only by far more complex and expensive tandem solar cells.

Note on CEC Ratings for Modules.

Here's a list of CEC ratings from California.

Here's a description of "derating" of Energy Output. In other words, the panels aren't perfect, here's how to estimate actual output to AC from DC.

Nice Wafering Tech - Sharp

Sharp Announces Technique to Halve Wafer Production Costs for Solar Cells

Excelent article on Wafering Basics - Not Solar Specific.

Link.

Somewhat depressing article behind the link.

www.ChrisMartenson.com

"The way I see it, our markets are now largely out of the hands of “investors” and are mainly controlled by large trading funds, which use “black box” computers to trade the markets in a very highly-aggressive and rapid fashion. I have it on pretty good authority that there is a single hedge fund (just one) that constitutes 10% of all shares traded on any given day."

Neat! Wing Personal Portable Windmill.

Inhabitat - 'WING’ PERSONAL PORTABLE WINDMILL

Today's Linkage - 8/2/08

Naked Shorting on Fox News

The Mitchell Report - Deep Capture

Today's Linkage - 7/28/08

Solar lobby hopes bill has 9th life. Credit to IBCNU of Yahoo for the link.

Congress Blows Hot and Cold Over Tax Breaks for Wind Energy. Credit to IBCNU of Yahoo for the link.

Baucus Unveils Enhanced Extenders Package (S.3335).

Wonk Room - The Assault On Gore — And On The American Dream.

Daily Kos - Partially clears up Housing Bill Confusion.

McCain is moving away from support for Cap and Trade.

Salon on Energy Efficiency programs, and their huge returns on Investment.

Hedge Funds May Post Worst Month in 5 Years as Bank Bets Sour.