CSKH - waiting for the sun to shine
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Now ETMM steps in front of AUTO offering 40k at .0249
too funny. So everyone that bought on news yesterday wants out. CSKH has already become a bore, lol.
volume so far, a 2K pre-market trade over a half hour old. yup, boring.
This google search puts Clear Skies on top.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Solar+Installations+Mineola%2C+NY
Any know the new California office address?
AUTO (retail) on the best offer at .025
Auto appeared at .025 yesterday and remained at the best offering up into the close. They sold maybe 100k. It looks like today is just a continuation on yesterdays order.
He should be easy to move as long as its not me or f09, lol.
.03 today?
a 2k pre-market print, whats up with that?
you have a very stealthy broker!
AS: 300M
OS: 206,271,976 (as of 03-31-2011)
they are leaving you in limbo - I hate that.
ask moves easily, .0259 now
just give it time for the word to spread, in the meantime add the cheapies
volume picking up!
ok, here comes a 50k ask slap from me. lets see if .0254 folds.
50k knocked out .025 - the pps is just itching to move up, all we need is just a little more ask slapping to move this baby.
Nice pickup at .022 now that we finally have some news to move this
The mud is drying out, we're getting traction!
pull up your trading chair.
Looks like Ezra found something to spark this - patents!
.03 looks doable today
one monkey left at .024, then .0299 is up!
yup, stuck at the low end of the channel
financiers are not dumping below .02 so maybe there will be another move up to the top on the channel.
sure is quiet at Suite 610 Mineola, NY. A few more days and it will be a month since the last PR. I wonder if that office is just a mail drop. If I owned a solar installation company my office would be in a commercial building along with the trucks and equipment.
I added more at .023 yesterday
I must be nuts
my avg now is .04908
why couldn't they exceed their Q4 guidance expectations?
"...The results have been very successful and we have been exceeding our own expectations..." 4/7/11
I wonder how the "high volume market" is going (or not)
"...These smaller projects have been developed as the result of our movement into the high volume market since January 2011 and are in addition the projects previously announced. The results have been very successful and we have been exceeding our own expectations..." 4/7/11
Rethinking CEO Stock Options
The stock option component of CEO compensation makes a dubious performance-incentive, says Tuck professor Sidney Finkelstein
Business Week
By Sydney Finkelstein
April 17, 2009, 10:32AM EST
With the stock market in a possibly record-setting swoon, one of the first things boards of directors and senior executives are thinking about is: How soon can they reprice their stock options? Ironically, it may well be the prevalence of stock options that has contributed to the current economic mess. What's that, you say? How could anyone speak ill of stock options, the engine of growth in Silicon Valley and a ready path to wealth for millions of executives?
There are two big problems with most stock option plans, each of which has potentially important consequences for managerial decision-making.
First, stock options offer a one-way ticket to wealth generation, but without any real downside. When your stock is up, you benefit. When your stock is down, you don't so much lose money but rather make less money. Stock options have turned out to be incredible engines of risk-taking. And why not? There is little downside if you bet wrong, but huge upside if you roll your number. Much the same logic explains why so many bankers were willing to keep betting on subprime mortgages. Bonuses, like stock options, can only help you; they carry no penalty to personal wealth if you make the wrong choices.
Fueling Bad Judgment
Indeed, researchers have found that CEOs rewarded predominantly with stock options relative to restricted stock were more likely to make poor acquisitions, had more hits and misses that led to more volatile financial results, and were even identified as having more accounting irregularities.
What to do? Savvy boards will understand that a combination of stock options and restricted stock grants retains the incentive to make it big while ensuring that managers making extravagant bets like subprime will pay a personal price via the reduction in the value of their restricted stock. Similarly, bonuses should be scaled back, perhaps in combination with higher salaries, to create a more equitable playing field. Making bad decisions should hurt managers in the wallet, just as making good ones should help them.
Second, stock options are usually granted without regard to the performance of peer companies. This one is a little hard to believe until you see for yourself. Most stock option plans pay out to executives even if they perform much worse than their counterparts at competitor firms. So, in a bull market, everyone benefits, even the laggards in an industry as long as the overall market lifts all stock prices. You may end up greatly underperforming competitors, but your management team will still pick up the prize.
The solution should be straightforward. Stock option grants should be tied to the relative, not absolute, performance of a company. If you do better than your peer institutions in a rising market, you should get big rewards for doing so; if you can't keep pace, why should boards pay out in the same way? Be forewarned, however. There will be howls from some quarters on this one. For an industrial class that has become accustomed to generous stock option rewards in rising markets, demanding superior performance will be a tough pill to swallow. But if boards don't set the standard, no one will.
Real Downside
The rush to reprice stock options in this down market is a perfect indication of how imperfect this method of compensation really is. It is not that repricing removes the downside from stock options—you can't lose money with stock options; you can only make less money. This will never happen, but why do boards not reprice stock options when the stock has gone up dramatically? If it makes sense to recalibrate options when they are under water to provide realistic incentives for good management decision-making, why not do the same when they no longer represent a tough, but attainable target? With an elevated stock price, stock options will pay out big even if managers don't do anything, and that's not much of an incentive after all.
Well, looking for equity in repricing is not something I would bet on. But when stock options are being repriced in this bear market, let's make sure they take on some of the real balanced incentive characteristics they should. And that means trading some stock options for restricted stock grants so there is a real downside when managers make flawed decisions, and ensuring that any stock options pay out only when managers meet or beat their competitors. Anything less and we will be repeating some of the same mistakes that helped get us into this mess in the first place.
Sydney Finkelstein is Professor of Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and the author of Think Again: Why Good Managers Make Bad Decisions (Harvard Business Press, 2009).
http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/apr2009/ca20090417_941667.htm
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Stock options
Supporters of stock options say they align the interests of CEOs to those of shareholders, since options are valuable only if the stock price remains above the option's strike price. Stock options are now counted as a corporate expense (non-cash), which impacts a company's income statement and makes the distribution of options more transparent to shareholders. Critics of stock options charge that they are granted excessively and that they invite management abuses such as the options backdating of such grants. Stock options also pose a conflict of interest in which a CEO can artificially raise the stock price to cash in stock options at the expense of the company's long-term health, although this is a problem for any type of incentive compensation that goes unmonitored by directors. Indeed, "reload" stock options allow executives to exercise options and then replace them in part (and sometimes in whole), essentially selling the company stock short (i.e., profiting from the stock's decline). For various reasons, including the accounting charge, concerns about dilution and negative publicity related to stock options, companies have reduced the size of grants to executives.
Stock options also incentivize executives to engage in risk-seeking behavior. This is because the value of a call option increases with increased volatility. (cf. options pricing). Stock options therefore - even when used legitimately - can incentivize excessive risk seeking behavior that can lead to catastrophic corporate failure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_pay
This recent volume was greater than the multi-billion volume on the run to .002 (from .0002) last spring.
biomanbaba Member Profile biomanbaba Member Level Share Wednesday, May 12, 2010 6:25:15 PM
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CEO Jim Morris answers "dilution" critics
I saw this posted today: "So $1 million dollars in capital is the limit in one year? Jim has already
cashed $600,000 this year. That leaves $400,000 left to dilute. Does anyone not see why this will
drop further once Jim dilutes more?".
There are are two things I would like to say, and you can post this on the forum if you wish.
1. Lecere sold about 1.2 billion 504 shares right into the lastest run-up in share price.
The 504 investors are not evil people or stupid people. They want to trades shares in such a
way that they will make as much money as they can for themselves. The best way to do that is to
trade their free-trading stock in such a way that it not only does not decrease the stock price,
but actually might make it go up a little bit. It is not a given that dilution will automatically
result in a stock price going down.
2. Lecere has about $1.4 million additional cash that can be raised, because the second year
starts at the time we would raise $1 million. However, this does not mean that Lecere will ever
need to raise that much 504 money. It is my hope that private placement investment for restricted
stock will take over for 504 investments in the next few months, and then maybe profitability in
the next year or so.
Jim Morris
in New Jersey there have been a total of 5,582 solar installations as of 3/31/2011.
CSKH better be cranking out the "high volume projects" before HD sucks up all the business....
Will Home Depot Kill the Residential Solar Market?
content by Cleantechies
By Chris Williams
Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:45am EDT
Forums are a great way to listen to what industry professionals are talking about, to discover what they still need to learn, and to find out what's on people's minds. SolarPro is my favorite forum for serious solar professionals. It's unbeatable.
One of the concerns that has been thrown around a lot lately from solar contractors is about the future of the residential solar market given Home Depot's entrance into selling solar. The emergence of Westinghouse Solar and Enphase Energy, two companies producing AC modules, has decreased the technical requirement of a system. This begs the question, "Will the entrance of Home Depot, and other big box stores, into the industry negatively affect the future of the residential solar market?"
There are many ways we can look to answer the questions:
Permits: Homeowners may now have more access for buying the products and installing them, but can they pull the required permits? Yes. Homeowners are typically allowed to pull electrical permits and home improvement permits to perform work on their home. Whether they will actually do it remain the question. The answer will depend on a few more variables.
Incentives: Homeowners will be able to purchase solar products and apply for all federal incentives because they are simply tax credits or grants. The question is whether they will be able to reap state benefits. Some states, like Massachusetts, have SREC programs that homeowners can take advantage of. However, some states, like New York and Pennsylvania, require contractors to become "eligible installers" to get state incentives. Due to the licensing and certain state requirements, it would be almost impossible for a homeowner to become eligible in NY or PA.
Insurance: Think of the liability, insurance, and warranty issues that go along with homeowners installing their own solar systems. Who will be responsible for service? Who will take care of repairs of faulty equipment and troubleshooting? Even if they're able to physically install the system, most homeowners will be incapable of insuring the systems reliability.
Comparisons with Other Trades: Here's the reality. Homeowners can also purchase shingles, sinks, windows, and wood at Home Depot. Does this mean that they're going to re-shingle their own roofs, build their own decks, and install their windows? I think not.
There will always be a small number of DIYs that will do the work themselves, but it won't likely reach the mass market.
Power Purchase Agreements: The solar industry has exploded with the introduction of Solar PPAs on the residential and commercial sectors. A lot of homeowners simply can't install solar without utilizing a power purchase agreement. Most PPA firms will only work with established companies due to legal, warranty, and quality issues. They will not work directly with homeowners. This is a big deterrent to self-installation.
Here are two more questions to consider when analyzing how the entrance of big box stores will affect the market:
Is it cheaper?
Let's assume that homeowners can buy a complete solar package (inverter, racking, balance of systems, and solar panels) at Lowes. Would they want to? Regarding the Andalay Sytstem, Lowe's is charging $893 per AC panel (it's a Suntech 175W with and Enphase inverter). That figures out to a cost of $5.10 per watt, just for the materials. This cost does not include labor, permitting and all the other related costs that a homeowner would need to cover. Even if the homeowner completed 100 percent of the labor himself, most respectable contractors can beat this price and still make a profit.
Can Home Depot be a Good Sign?
The major quandary that stood out to me is why contractors see this as a bad thing. Why? I think because most people see Home Depot as low prices and cheap quality, which may or may not be true. However, with Home Depot, Lowe's and other big box names getting into the game, won't that legitimize the industry? Although the vast majority of Americans support greater use of solar, many are still skeptical of it. To gain the support of big brands to the solar campaign, it will only add legitimacy, interest and-better yet-dollars behind this type of renewable energy. You can bet that if Home Depot's solar business starts to go well, they'll put their money behind keeping it that way and expanding into more states. Perhaps this could even spark the creation of more state-based incentive programs and increase demand. The reality is that there is plenty to go around. For example, in New Jersey there have been a total of 5,582 solar installations as of 3/31/2011. That is nothing! New Jersey the second largest market, is growing quickly and doesn't even have 6,000 installations. We haven't even touched the surface. Even if Home Depot gets tons of business, there will be much more work left over for other contractors, especially given a higher demand.
What are your thoughts on the big boxes and major brand entering the solar industry? Good bad, don't care?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/25/idUS270815631020110425
well if the 10-k is any indication I would say that if they have next to nil revenues to report (like 4Q) they'll delay it as long as possible. ie June 1st
c'mon Ezra, throw us bone, we're withering on the vine here.
3 measly trades today
20 days until they report Q1
And we all know Q1 was just just one big snow storm in the northeast
They is plenty of work to go around, CSKH just has to find it!
Obama pumps plan to develop renewable energy
Obama says developing renewable energy sources is 1 answer to rising gasoline, oil prices
Darlene Superville, Associated Press, On Saturday April 23, 2011, 6:12 am EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says one answer to high gasoline prices is to spend money developing renewable energy sources.
"That's the key to helping families at the pump and reducing our dependence on foreign oil" in the long term, he said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.
Obama raises the issue of rising fuel prices during almost every public appearance and says that he understands the strain higher fuel costs are putting on some family budgets.
He announced Thursday during an event in Reno, Nev., that the Justice Department will begin looking for cases of fraud or manipulation in the oil markets, even though Attorney General Eric Holder suggested a variety of legal reasons may be behind the surging gas prices.
As he has before, Obama said Saturday there is no "silver bullet" that will slash gas prices immediately. But he said there are things government can do to help make a difference in the long term. They also include boosting U.S. oil production, rooting out any illegal activity by traders and speculators and ending $4 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies to oil and gas companies.
"Instead of subsidizing yesterday's energy sources, we need to invest in tomorrow's," Obama said.
In the weekly Republican address, Nebraska Sen. Mike Johanns focused on jobs and said lawmakers who are serious about creating them need to cut spending and the bureaucracy that he and others say burden small businesses and keep them from hiring more.
"If everyone is serious about job creation, in addition to reducing the debt, let's reduce burdensome regulations that serve no purpose other than to insert more government into the lives of citizens," he said. "We can't tie up small businesses in needless red tape and regulations and expect them to create jobs and boost the economy."
N.J. solar energy boom's frantic pace could slow
Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 6:30 AM
By Eliot Caroom
The Star-Ledger The Star-Ledger
EDISON — Gray clouds covered Edison yesterday and rain drizzled onto a crowd celebrating the largest rooftop solar farm in the country.
There was hearty applause as politicians and businessmen lauded the 17-acre solar farm, which can generate more than 4 megawatts of energy, enough to power half the warehouse full of offices and industrial freezers.
"I would like to thank the state of New Jersey for policies that helped Avidan Management develop renewable energy," said Avi Avidan, head of the commercial real estate company.
Off the stage Avidan told another story: He isn’t sure whether to go ahead with two more solar projects.
The state is unquestionably a leader in solar energy — two more projects are planned that would beat the record set in Edison — but the industry’s period of exponential growth is bound to slow, industry insiders say.
New Jersey has seen a swift solar expansion in large part because of state rules that force power companies to either produce solar power or buy it on a market where companies like Avidan sell "SRECs," credits representing energy.
"Will the SREC values come down? Yes, they will come down," said Jamie Hahn, managing director of Solis Partners, a Manasquan company that designs solar panel systems for commercial clients. "It’s like taking the training wheels off a new industry."
Solar capacity in the state doubled last year and now totals 305 megawatts of power, enough for 45,000 households. That amounts to less than 1 percent of the electricity consumed in the state each year.
PSE&G has led the way, investing $140 million in its own solar projects.
Commercial landlord Hartz Mountain has 6 megawatts of rooftop panels and is starting an 8.5-megawatt project in Hamilton Township near the Turnpike.
Then there are smaller businesses getting a share of the action like Jersey Lanes in Linden, which is installing $550,000 worth of panels.
"We’re going to look at on average $4,000 to $5,000 a month of SREC income, which is considerable," said Jersey Lanes owner John Fatigati.
But as solar panels keep popping up, Fatigati and Avidan both worry that the solar credits will lose value.
For that reason, Avidan isn’t sure if he will go ahead with new solar projects.
"I am not as optimistic that I can make these two projects financially feasible as I did with this project," he said.
Douglas Kelly, a commercial mortgage banker who arranges financing for solar projects and worked with Avidan, agreed that SREC prices will go down, but said the industry can keep growing as long as both the state credits and a federal incentive for 30 percent of a project’s cost stay in place.
"It is not a bubble for the next eight months," Kelly said. "Next year, if there is no 30 percent incentive from the federal government, it’s a different story."
If the federal incentive remains, a drop in SREC prices will slow the burst of solar expansion, but won’t end it, according to Kevin Book, managing director at ClearView Energy Partners, a research analysis firm.
"That’s still a pretty hefty premium," Book said. "That is a very strong regulatory support for solar. It speaks to the fact that New Jersey is serious, or at least has been up to this point."
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2011/04/nj_solar_energy_booms_frantic.html
Solar module price could drop 20 percent in 2011
By Nichola Groom
LOS ANGELES | Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:53pm EDT
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Solar module prices could fall as much as 20 percent this year due to an excess of supply in the market, the chief executive of solar project developer Recurrent Energy said on Wednesday.
Solar modules currently sell for between $1.40 and $1.50 each, Recurrent CEO Arno Harris said in an interview, and should come down to a range of $1.20 to $1.30.
"As the industry reacts to the shifts in Europe, we're going to see those kinds of changes become transparent to the market pretty soon," Harris said.
Suppliers are cutting prices in reaction to pullbacks in generous solar subsidies in Italy, combined with the expansion of solar panel manufacturing capacity.
"The way we look at the situation right now, we are in an oversupply dynamic," Harris said, adding that, as prices come down, the U.S. solar market could absorb some of the excess supply.
One Wall Street analyst disputed Harris' figures, saying prices would likely hit the $1.50 range later this year, dropping to $1.20 some time next year.
"We do think prices are going to $1.40 to $1.50. We don't doubt that," Jefferies analyst Jesse Pichel said. "But probably it's more an end of Q3, early Q4 event."
Japan's Sharp Corp bought Recurrent for more than $300 million last year in a bid to expand its presence in the growing market for building solar power plants. Sharp is a major global manufacturer of solar panels.
But Recurrent is not using use Sharp products in its solar systems, Harris said. Rather, the company is using lower-cost panels made in China.
"I don't anticipate us using Sharp technology in our projects for some time," he said. "They have an existing business and existing distribution, and they are moving production through that channel, and we don't want to compete with their customers."
As a result, Recurrent will be a customer of panel suppliers such as China's Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd and Yingli Green Energy Holding Co Ltd "for the foreseeable future," Harris said.
"It's very curious that he's not using Sharp," Pichel said. "Which means (Sharp) can't get to that cost structure."
Recurrent, which is based in San Francisco, has a project pipeline of 2 gigawatts and about 400 megawatts of projects operating, in construction or under contract.
The company is focused primarily on the Western United States and Ontario, Canada, markets, but is also looking toward New Jersey and emerging international markets for long-term growth.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/20/us-sharp-idUSTRE73J6C720110420
I miss being bullish on this stock.
It's Easter already, Can't Mr.Green pull a rabbit out of his hat for his bleeding shareholders.
Tomorrow is good Friday. The pps has been crucified, so will it rise from the dead?
I can't imagine with all the solar work out there that they can't turn this around in short order.
"...we expect to be installing 30 to 40 homes per month in the next 60 days..." 02-17-2011
The 60 days are up!
"...We have started pulling the permits on 18 residential installations totaling 210 kw or $1.2 million, as well as 4 small sub-50 kw commercial jobs totaling 310 kw or $340,000. These smaller projects have been developed as the result of our movement into the high volume market since January 2011 and are in addition the projects previously announced. The results have been very successful and we have been exceeding our own expectations..." 04-07-2011
thanks Renee, looks like they went after the "S" companies, lol.
8-k's won't cut it, now we need 10Q'S and 10K's to get out of the grey's
Looking good here, volume interest is building, maybe something is cooking that we are unaware of
almost 500k at noon
the stock has interest, its time for management to take advantage of it. PR this week?
CSKH owns land in the Mojave Desert
250k volume already - climbing up out of our hole
Look the video in this news story about a solar installation. That should EZRA talking dammit!
http://rochester.ynn.com/content/top_stories/533021/new-solar-panels-at-airport-save-money-and-energy/
I wish this one was public.
Look at the jobs they are doing in 2011 listed right on the front page of the company website, every one of them in a newspaper article or from a local news station report.
How to these guys do it without printing stock? ("the old fashion way, they earn it, -Smith Barney")
Italy’s Last Reactor Town Goes Solar in Fight Against Nuclear
April 17, 2011, 6:55 PM EDT
Bloomberg
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Montalto di Castro, the town where Italy’s last nuclear plant was built before a two-decade ban, is fighting against a return to atomic power and staking its future on solar energy by hosting Europe’s largest photovoltaic park.
“We’ve come up with a better idea,” Mayor Salvatore Carai said in an interview in his Town Hall office, which has views of the old reactor between the sea and acres of farmland. “The solar panels keep us self-sufficient. We haven’t used a single kilowatt of ‘dirty energy’ since December 2009.”
Italy, the only Group of Eight nation without nuclear plants, passed legislation in 2008 to return to generation and the country planned to build its first new reactors by 2020. That was before the accident at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant prompted the government to set a one-year moratorium.
As Italy debates whether to return to nuclear generation, Montalto’s mayor is organizing protests and supporting a national referendum to stop the construction of new plants, saying they would hurt agriculture and tourism.
“There’s concern people will abandon the land for fear of leaks,” Carai said. “No compensation they can offer could make up for that.”
The Montalto reactor, which never went into service, was dismantled after Italians voted in a 1987 referendum to end nuclear generation in the wake of the Chernobyl accident. The empty shell of the facility now sits next to a thermoelectric plant run by Enel SpA, Italy’s biggest electricity producer.
Residents of Montalto are concerned that their town is a prime candidate to host new generators once the moratorium ends.
‘Top of List’
“We’re at the top of the list,” said Stefano Sebastiani, a spokesman for Montalto’s anti-nuclear committee. The Japanese accident has raised awareness on safety issues and made residents nervous about the prospect of new plants, he said. “Nuclear is like a pressure cooker and sooner or later the steam comes out and people pay the price.”
Experts agree that if plant construction goes ahead, the town of 9,000 between the sea and the hills of the central region of Lazio would offer an ideal location.
“Montalto is one of the places where it makes sense to restart nuclear,” said Giovanbattista Zorzoli, a nuclear engineer and professor at Milan’s polytechnic university. “It has the right conditions and a network already set up for distribution of the energy.” There’s also a canal connecting the area to the sea to allow for cooling, he said.
Montalto has already moved on, said Raffaello Giacchetti, regional manager for SunRay Renewable Energy, a European solar power-plant developer and operator of the town’s main 45 megawatt photovoltaic field. Producing enough electricity to power 15,000 homes, it’s the largest field in Europe.
Economic Advantages
“Montalto and other towns in the area have understood that they’re not just getting economic advantages from the fields,” Giacchetti said. “They’re are also creating an alternative to nuclear power.” The town’s solar fields combine to provide 85 MW of power, which should rise to 120 MW by the end of this year, according to Mayor Carai.
Solar panel prices will likely fall to $1.50 per watt in the second half of 2011 compared with around $1.80 in 2010, Jenny Chase, a solar analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said March 29.
Demand for solar may be supported by a backlash against atomic generators after the Fukushima accident. The WilderHill New Energy Index has gained about 8 percent since the March 11 accident as governments around the world review their nuclear plans.
Electricity Prices
Some Montalto residents remain skeptical about whether solar power can have enough of an impact. “We pay too much for electricity,” said Quinto Del Papa, a retired farmer who supports nuclear power. “I think nuclear would help.”
Italian households pay 21 euro cents per kilowatt hour of electricity compared with 13 cents in France and 14 cents in the U.K., while Italian businesses pay 13 cents, compared with 7 cents in France and 11 cents in the U.K., according to Brussels- based research firm Europe’s Energy Portal.
Environment Minister Stefania Prestigiacomo said last year that nuclear power will help balance Italy’s energy mix, reduce electricity prices and cut dependence on imported energy.
Del Papa, who remembers Montalto as a boomtown that nearly doubled in population as the old plant was built, said new reactors “would also give us jobs.” As for the dangers of having a reactor in the neighborhood, he shrugged. “I’d live near it,” he said. “Those accidents are rare.”
Zorzoli, the Milan-based nuclear engineer, said he’s more skeptical about atomic energy since the Fukushima accident. “One should not be alarmist” about the country’s power requirements, he said. “Italy’s existing capacity and renewable development will allow us to face our needs.”
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-04-17/italy-s-last-reactor-town-goes-solar-in-fight-against-nuclear.html
If we could only get a PR like this...
Vermont Air Guard Goes Solar
Pat Bradley (2011-04-15)
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT (WAMC) - The project will consist of a solar electrical generating plant, a fixed-ground array and a roof mounted application. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has been working with the Vermont Guard for a number of years to enhance their energy efficiency and make them one of the most sustainable military bases in the country.....
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The solar array at the Vermont Air Guard facility will generate 1,650 kilowatt hours of electricity annually. Senator Sanders says it's one example of how the military is moving towards energy efficiency......
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Senator Sanders says the Vermont Air Guard's solar installation project is larger than originally planned because in recent years the cost of photovoltaic cells has gone down significantly.
Vermont Clean Energy Development Fund Director Andrew Perchlik says the guard facility is part of a rapid growth in large-scale solar projects in the state......
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The solar array is expected to reduce the Vermont Air Guard's carbon emissions by 25 tons of carbon dioxide annually.
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/715/0/1789971/WAMC.New.England.News/Vermont.Air.Guard.Goes.Solar
its a grosolar job, oh well. But if CSKH could land a verifiable job like this, the pps would respond!
Saw a pickup truck at Home depot today with grosolar.com proudly displayed.
I wonder if ClearSkies uses this free marketing tool? Do they even have any trucks? I believe no, they sub contract the physical labor.
The most striking facet of Japanese candlesticks is their ease of identification. Hundreds of years ago, Japanese rice traders become ultra-wealthy using Candlestick signals to trade rice. These signals were developed through simple observation. As years of successful utilization of the signals progressed, they even were able to analyze the psychology behind forming the signals. This provided a very powerful tool for projecting future price movement.
Two of the most compelling candlestick signals are the Bullish Engulfing Pattern and Bearish Engulfing Pattern. They are most effective when founding the oversold area, at the end of a substantial downtrend or the overbought area for the Bearish pattern. The Bullish Engulfing pattern consists of two bodies. The first body is the same color as the current trend, the second is the opposite color. The signal day opens lower than the previous days close, then it trades higher so by the end of the day, it will close above the previous days open. This new white candle now engulfs the previous days candle, known as the DAKI, or the embracing line.
Figure 1 - Bullish Engulfing
Witnessing a white bullish candle, engulfing the previous black candle, stands out like a neon sign after a series of black candles. It becomes very plain to see that a change has occurred in investor sentiment. A couple of simple factors make the Bullish Engulfing pattern more convincing. The bigger the previous days candle being engulfed, the more effective the new trend signal will be. Or the lower the open of the white candle, then coming back up to engulf the previous day, the more powerful the next advance should be.
The formula is relatively simple;
(O1>C1) and (O O1). Defined as the open of yesterday is greater than the close of yesterday. And the open today is less than the close of yesterday, And the close of today is greater than the open of yesterday.
The Bullish Engulfing pattern represents a complete change in investor sentiment. Using this pattern as a buy signal eliminates the need to grab for the fallen knife. When is “low” the right time to buy? The Bullish Engulfing pattern reveals when the buyers have stepped in. Note in the Dow Jones industrial chart that the whole market sentiment reversed at the Bullish Engulfing formations. The signals work equally well when analyzing indexes as they do for individual stocks, commodities, futures or any other trading entity.
Having the knowledge of just eight or nine Candlestick signals, the Bullish and Bearish Engulfing patterns being on that list, produces huge advantages for analyzing the direction of the markets in general. This reinforces the analysis of an individual stock price. Training Video for Engulfing Patterns
Figure 2 - Dow Jones Industrials