on investments:
wind & solar can't exist without subsidies right now, the efficiency is just not there.. maybe in 10-20 years they can complete, meanwhile if cap&trade passes they should be a good buy. In solar FSLR ( first solar ) is the company with the best technology.
Wind will not happen until our grid is totally re-done, which should happen anyway, but i don't see us having money to spend on it within 10 years or so.
Geothermal actually sounds cool and sexy, but i don't know who does it in scale.
Nuclear in US faces "not in my backyard" idiocy of the politicians.
But in any case, utilities like Con Edison are a good conservative investment and they have 5-6% yield.
With $ staging a major come back high yield $ stocks could be big winners

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