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"The best thing a person can be in the world is a saint. If you can't be a prophet." Who said that?

Onward and upward, pards. 20% of southern US forest biomass wasted. 30% in NEast, AK. Yields 4X corn. In world, >1B acres of ag abandoned from poor farming. Another B wasted grassland, savanna, shrubland. Low-hanging fruit for biofuels.

Kent Bioenergy got algae to behave and settle in their ponds and have conveyor belts to pull the algae out. Possibly the lowest cost method for commercial scale.

NG (natgas for you newcomers) provides 21% of US el these days. 40% by '35: Black & Veatch.

Enphase E, Petra Solar the only microinverter firms of 12+ known shipping products in commercial volume. Enphase @ .5M, Petra @ 72k units. Enphase just signed into Siemens family.

Smartgrid soiree in San Diego: HAN (Home Access Networks?) and home E mgmt markets to hit $750M by '15. Utilities need to come up with consumer svcs with $16B rollout of smart meters in next 5 yrs. Well, if they could just lower the bills for golly sakes. GTM Research. Market $400M in '11. Began with Wi-Fi routers. Tendril, COMV among the playas. Focus on TX and UK (not a US state) cuz their utilities sell their el through retailers (can you say Enron?). ENOC, GE pushing into UK. I hope she's ready.

Schneider El intro'd home E monitor system including load control. Only $675. For potential 30% redux in bills. Founded in 1840's, Schneider trusted by utils. ABB has been buying up the landscape lately, going thru a $7B warchest. Siemens, GE, Schneider and ABB the big barkers. Next step volt mgmt. Optical tech.

WindFuels, a SC start'm up, proposing off-peak wind can produce trans fuels. Check this out, pards. Doty Windfuels also working on same thing. Off-peak wind used to electrolyze water and convert CO2 in a conventional process to fuel. Can compete with $50 crude. Interesting process you might want to check out.

O, by the way, ~25Twh (Terawatt hours) of wind E was idled in the US last year to keep the off-grid E price from frequently going negative. Are you reading this? Now do we see why wind installs were down last year? That equaled about 700M gallons of gas going down the drain. Looks to exceed 40Twh in '11. Well, that looks to be getting worse. Economical (ecocomical?) wind E potential in US exceeds the E needed to synthesize 2X our current transfuel needs. From off-peak wind. I'm blown. You? Can this really be true? Can windfuels truly provide the potential to get us off imported oil and exporting transfuels? Best scale-up so far at 250MW farm-plants. Doty has 30 patents.

Outward and forward pals.