CSKH - waiting for the sun to shine
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small customers is where any new business is built and tested. It should be easy to get any customer up and running. Basic software to allow a new customer to log on and configure his menu and pricing. It should be a painless automated process. Once functional, advertizing and word of mouth should move the business forward if potential customers feel Lecere's software can streamline their business and increase their bottom line.
I asked ihub but never got an answer
It's like PLSB doesn't exist
only 375,000 Americans have incomes of over $1,000,000
Between 1979 and 2007, incomes for the wealthiest 1% of Americans rose by 281%
During the Great Depression, millionaires had a top marginal tax rate of 68%
In 1963, millionaires had a top marginal tax rate of 91%
In 1976, millionaires had a top marginal tax rate of 70%
Today, millionaires have a top marginal tax rate of 35%
Reducing the income tax on top earners is one of the most inefficient ways to grow the economy according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office
44% of Congress people are millionaires. The tax cuts were never meant to be permanent
Letting tax cuts for the top 2% expire as scheduled would pay down the debt by $700 billion over the next 10 years
I would have thought hearing another $4m in deals for June alone would have pushed this over .03
We would have had to have closed at .03 or higher that news day to keep the momo going, but of
course some party pooper whacked a low bid for chump change at the end of the day
I still feel this company is making a huge mistake PR'ing at 6am when most investors/traders are
still snoozing. When they finally get online there are plenty of fresh stories coming off the wires
and that's what they're acting on.
Given a blockbuster enough PR though would negate this draw back.
Well, back in the trenches tomorrow pulling teeth trying to scare up 100k in volume. lol.
There were THREE (3) 1k .027 paint jobs today. It has to be a large seller trying make the stock look good.
Maybe if he has plenty to sell he should start an awareness campaign so we can get some life back into this stock!
Oy vey
There is lots of cash available to go solar!
Jul 28, 2011 12:36 PM ET
Citigroup Inc. (C), the third-biggest U.S. bank, will contribute $80 million to a $105 million fund that SunPower Corp. (SPWRA) created to finance residential solar projects in eight states.
SunPower, which is 60 percent-owned by French oil company Total SA (FP), leases rooftop solar systems to homeowners in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, the companies said today in a statement. Under these leases, SunPower owns the equipment and customers pay a monthly fee.
you'll have to wait all the way to April 2012 for audited numbers.
At the rate Mr. Green and company are closing deals we could all be rich by then, lol.
My personal belief is Mr. Green has strong character and is presently executing and not blustering. In time well see the proof. Of course by then investors will have to pay up for shares. The time to take a position is before the numbers are revealed.
Instead of just looking for the "big" commercial jobs the company switched gears and hired sale managers to load up on any and all jobs, no matter how small, and its working.
So instead of expecting to get $20M in rev's Through a single source in 2010, they are up to $12M already in 2011 from multiple sources. There is no way all the various signed contracts are going to be breached.
CSKH is going to put up exponential growth in the ensuing quarters, bank on it!
That was 10% of today's volume!
A little over two weeks until we see Q2 numbers. Hopefully there will something positive then to spark some interest. Existing shareholders are close to tapped out. We need some new tire kickers, lol.
So true! look at today's pps action, lol
Its like we never got the good growth news yesterday. Still stuck mid .02's with lackluster volume (investor interest)
CSKH is undergoing exponential growth yet investors are either uninterested or unaware.
What's the problem? 6am PR's? Solar as a group in the doghouse?
This from your story about financing opening up again for solar companies...
"...right now, many solar stocks seem priced for long term zero, or even negative growth. That, to me, seems to be taking the case too far...."
Hi rainbow
i didn't demote you. I think if a mod fails to post for more than 60days Ihub just removes you automatically.
The SEC should be looking for bigger fish to fry than the likes of SDGL. I had 8 grand invested here, and still do.
You've been reinstated, lol.
today's tape
15:54:05 0.0261 32,600
15:17:36 0.0270 307
13:47:15 0.0270 5,000
13:42:34 0.0270 15,000
13:28:22 0.0270 200
12:24:34 0.0270 10,000
12:21:11 0.0270 15,000
12:01:08 0.0270 10,000
11:59:58 0.0270 30,000
11:41:39 0.0270 25,000
11:40:12 0.0270 23,600
10:31:21 0.0298 2,600
10:31:18 0.0298 176,302
10:31:16 0.0295 5,000
10:30:00 0.0290 5,000
10:29:45 0.0277 11,098
10:29:43 0.0275 200,000
10:25:12 0.0270 52,500
09:55:31 0.0270 18,000
09:55:30 0.0270 4,250
09:39:57 0.0275 3,000
09:37:07 0.0270 1,500
09:37:07 0.0270 7,400
09:37:07 0.0270 30,000
09:37:02 0.0266 5,000
09:30:39 0.0266 725
07/26 0.0267 1,000
07/26 0.0260 1,000
07/26 0.0236 106,600
07/26 0.0236 500
anyone notice the last line in todays PR...
"...We look forward to delivering more good news. Ezra Green, CEO CSS..."
It time to buckle up imo. This company is finally on track!
you haven't lost if you haven't sold.
I still have all mine and then some
As of today I think consolidation is over. Its onward and upward from here on out!
CSKH news, chart...
#board-11635
CSKH news, chart...
#board-11635
that retail seller (AUTO) has 200k left at .0275
As soon as he's out the train will leave the station.
Now ARCA is looking for 500k on the bid, LOL
ok, looking good. We have a winner here.
"...We currently have approximately eight projects under construction..."
"...non-dilutive sources of project and product funding..."
$4M in sales for June, and I think the running total before that was $8.1M, so $12M in sales for the 1st half of 2011 - not too shabby, lol.
Go CSKH!
If they'd only release the next PR at 9am like every other penny company does. But I guess this is not like any other penny company and that's why we're here.
Its only a matter of time. The smart investor would take a position here. Management plans giving us solid numbers rather than foreward looking statements. When that happens we can kiss 2 cents behind!
New York City's solar power push
By Steve Hargreaves @CNNMoneyTech July 25, 2011: 5:16 PM ET
New York City has a new hyper-accurate map, more money and is trying to streamline bureaucracy in the hopes that solar energy could one day power half the town. Here, solar panels on a television studio in Brooklyn.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- About two-thirds of the one million rooftops in New York City are suitable for solar power.
If every one of those roofs had solar panels, when the sun shines the brightest the city could get half its electricity from solar power.
New York has a long way to go before becoming that solar utopia. The city currently gets only a tiny fraction of its power from solar. And until there's a good way to store the electricity generated during the day and release it at night, solar will likely continue to make up a modest part of the city's overall energy mix.
But even a small amount of solar can help the city in big ways. It can reduce the overall stress on the electric grid, eliminating the need to build expensive new transformers or lay underground transmission wire.
During hot days when air conditioning is working overtime, it can reduce the chance of a blackout and cut the need to fire up older, dirtier generators.
"Some people are waiting to see what the federal or state government will do," David Bragdon, head of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's sustainability office, said at a recent solar conference in the city. "But important things are happening right here."
The Groupon of solar power
Among them: A new hyper-accurate map of the city that is designed to gauge solar's potential building-by-building. A plan to put solar farms on top of old landfills. New financial incentives that add to existing city, state and federal subsidies. And an overall streamlining of the solar power permitting bureaucracy.
These measures, combined with a mandate that requires 30% of the state's power to come from renewable sources by 2015, are driving the development of solar.
In addition to reducing current demand on the grid, the idea behind solar subsidies and mandates is to foster a stable and growing market for the technology. That way, the private sector will put the time and money into solar research, and perhaps one day it can meet a big chunk of New York's power needs.
Right now solar is still a minuscule part of the city's overall power consumption -- six megawatts out of an electrical appetite that can reach 13,000 megawatts. But it has doubled over the last year, and is expected to grow another five-fold by 2015, according to Tria Case, director of sustainability at the City University of New York.
CUNY, along with a handful of other organizations, has been spearheading the effort to bring more solar power to New York.
In 2007 Case received a grant from the federal Department of Energy that designated New York as one of 25 "Solar American Cities," big cities across the country that would serve as testing grounds for solar power.
The grant, about $200,000, was used to create a position of solar ombudsman -- someone who would coordinate between all the various government agencies, non-profits, private companies and the local utility, Consolidated Edison (ED, Fortune 500), that are working on solar power.
Last month CUNY rolled out something even more impressive, at least visually. Using aircraft-mounted laser beams, the university used DOE and city money to create a map out of 15 billion points of data that can pinpoint exactly how much solar can go on any rooftop in the city, how much it will cost, what the incentives are and how long it will take for the homeowner to recoup the investment.
There are other maps of this kind, but none with such detail. This solar map can pinpoint objects down to the size of a coffee cup, and factors in things like shadows from trees or other buildings, fire code setbacks or stairway entrances to give the most accurate reading of just how much solar energy a building can generate.
"New York now has the most granular view of the city it's ever had," said Case. "Folks out there want to understand what's possible, and this is really a very powerful tool."
For people like Jesse Cutaia, the solar map might mean more business.
Cutaia is a project manager at Solar Energy Systems, at New York-Based firm that designs and builds solar installations.
"It's a very helpful tool for a building owner to assess their own roof," he said. "It's a great resource to help promote solar in NYC."
Last week Cutaia spoke to CNNMoney on the roof of a film studio in Brooklyn's Greenpoint section.
The studio, Broadway Stages, has combined various incentives from the federal government, the city and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to put a $2 million solar installation on three buildings it owns in the area.
The panels provide 35% of the power at the studios, which currently serve as sets for the TV shows The Good Wife, Royal Pains and Blue Bloods. After all subsidies are claimed, Cutaia said the system will pay for itself in electricity savings after just four years.
"With the money that's available these days, especially in New York City, the economics speak for themselves," said Cutaia.
The money is substantial. Using the solar map to run the numbers for a residential rooftop in Brooklyn, the incentives on a $60,000 system added up to over $40,000.
Soon there will be even more money available. As part of the solar effort, New York recently designated three sections of city "solar empowerment zones," eligible for a tax credit to cover an additional 15% of the cost of a system. The areas were chosen based on where the electricity grid needed the additional power the most.
What Cutaia would really like to see is a one-stop shop to permit solar projects. Currently, he says he has to work with four or five different agencies. This is a common complaint of solar developers nationwide.
Con Edision is working on this.
The company recently spearheaded an effort to approve all solar projects within 100 days or less.
Some say Con Edison -- and utilities in general -- are not inclined to support a system like solar where the customers generate their own power.
And while some in the industry fault ConEdison for fighting a bill requiring more solar power in New York State, others give the utility credit for getting serious with solar over the last few years.
John Mucci, Con Edison's vice president of Manhattan operations, said the utility doesn't support the solar bill because it will raise rates for its customers and that the renewable mandate of 30% is enough at this time.
Mucci pointed out that the company is now responsible for just the wires and transformers and is no longer in the power generation business, and thus it does not view solar as a competitor.
He said solar does make the grid stronger, can prevent blackouts and keeps the utility from having to make expensive upgrades.
He also supports it from a green perspective.
"Anything that generates energy and doesn't burn anything is an amazing technology," said Mucci. "We should try to use more of it."
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that 80% of New York City rooftops are suitable for solar power.
First Published: July 25, 2011: 5:59 AM ET
http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/25/technology/solar-new-york/
ARCA is MIA
and our retail capitulator AUTO is back looking to get out of his 300k position at .026
Hopefully the stock will rip as soon as he's out, lol.
Let's hope so, many of us have been invested for a long time.
Community solar gardens are starting to bloom
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/idUS282339983220110722
This heat wave gives another reason to go solar, roof shading from the panels!!!!
The Secret Air-Conditioning Power of Solar Energy
By Hans Villarica
Jul 22 2011, 2:25 PM ET 1
How to stay cool during a heat wave? New research offers one unexpected solution: cover your roof with solar panels.
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There are plenty of benefits to using solar panels—notably clean energy, long-term electric-bill savings, utility rebates, and tax incentives. But one recently discovered side effect might be especially attractive to people suffering through this weekend's heat wave: Solar panels also keep buildings cool.
A new study in the current issue of the journal Solar Energy has found that a building's ceiling was cooler by 5 degrees F under a roof lined with solar panels than under a standard roof, as the panels reduced the amount of heat reaching the roof by 38 percent.
"It's mostly that shadow effect, like when you park your car under a tree. The sun hits the solar panels, not your roof," study co-author Jan Kleissl, an assistant professor of environmental engineering at the University of California - San Diego, explained to The Atlantic. "It's very intuitive."
Kleissl and fellow UCSD researchers Anthony Dominguez and Jeffrey C. Luvall used thermal infrared imagery to measure the temperature of the Powell Structural Systems Laboratory, which is partially covered by solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. The details of the study are of course specific to this particular building, which Kleissl describes as an "old, empty cube"—a commercial-style building that is more than a decade old and has little insulation.
"The AC energy savings potential of roof-mounted PV panels is highly dependent on building characteristics," notes David Sailor, the director of the Green Building Research Laboratory at Portland State University. "For this class of buildings, the savings may be large."
The researchers estimate that energy saved as a result of cooler roofs could, over the life of a solar-panel roof system, account for as much as 5 percent of the panels' initial cost. This computation could even be a conservative one. The researchers' data also suggest that, during winter months when energy use peaks, savings may be even greater—since solar panels, it seems, can insulate a building as well.
"It's like having a blanket," Kleissl says. "In winter, the solar panels won't allow all the heat to be lost to the atmosphere."
For the rest of these super-hot summer days, though, Kleissl's group shall be concentrating on generalizing their findings and developing a calculator that people could use to predict the cooling effect of solar panels on their own roofs. "It's about showing that solar has a lot of benefits and that they're quantifiable," he says.
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/07/the-secret-air-conditioning-power-of-solar-energy/242370/
Ezra should tout this on the company website!
some investor/trader wants out at .0263 for 300k
Fresh money will take his place!
Its so f'ing hot in most of the country the electric grid must be nearing a breaking point. The more solar installed will alleviate the strain from the A/C demand - right when the sun is the most brutal!
I think investing in CSKH will pay off at some point
I found this in the 10Q
The Company has not yet realized any revenues from its planned operations. It was primarily engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mining properties, but has since modified its business plan to focus on alternate energy. The Company expenses all costs related to the maintenance and exploration of developmental wind farms in which it has secured rights prior to establishment of commercial feasibility. To date, the Company has not established the commercial feasibility of its projects; therefore, all development costs are being expensed.
AS:200M
OS:47M
No money coming in, only money being borrowed and spent. It will be years before thier first windfarm will be operational. I find it hard to believe they found someone to loan them $15M for 49% of the revenue these farms will produce. I'll wager this convertible debenture will be paid in discounted stock at some point (as they all are)
Where is the 8k with the solid details (you know, mumbo-jumbo) on this financing agreement?
We longs like to cry in our beer alot but credit has to be given to Mr. Green for dumping the likes of Alpha Capital Anstalt, Barry Hoing, etal for financing. No new financier is willing to sell below the mid .02's If Ezra continued doing toxic convertible financing as opposed to restricted share private placements he now does, we'd be cutting our throats about now.
.02 is a ROCK solid bottom for CSKH and a great base to launch from!
Read this from last July 17th and this from Feb 17th of this year.
Management is on the right track to building shareholder wealth. It is coming imo.
If they know good news is on the way they are going to lead this higher. They are no longer going to harvest a juicy bid. Once the spread tightens we'll be good to go.
It's been a long time coming.
Me likes the .0269 print
1,000 shares, lol. Was that you PD
I must say the number of teeth we've had filled while buying and holding this stock hurt like hell.
Thanks Jimmy
"...pick up the phone and call the Company to perform due diligence. If what the company is saying comes to fruition, these shares should see strong appreciation..."
So Joe has called and someone told him "the Company is booming"
Why doesn't The company just PR this news so we can all hear it. Maybe it will bring in fresh money that will buy out ARCA's multiple 500k offers so we can get this pps MOVING!
All we can do is hope someone is going to take out this seller. Preferably someone that is in the know.
Maybe that was Ezra's 710k bid. That would speak volumes on his effort to regain our confidence.
The clock is ticking toward 8/15
Someone bought 165k at the open
was that from ARCA? Did he open on the best offer looking to dump a million shares?
0.024 (73788) UBSS x 0.025 (834500) ARCA
LOL, If it is this ship going down.
It could be the congregational investors looking to get their money back. Those restrictions must have pasted by now. If that is the case that doesn't bode well either.
The only silver lining was VERT buying 710k on the bid last week
He's BACK, with even more liquidity, lol.
EZRA should spring something on us to help him (out the door)