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Obama announces $2 billion investment in solar PV manufacturing and "the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night." - "What's more, over 70 percent of the components and products us

In his weekly radio, the  President announced he was putting $2 billion into two solar energy projects, including Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload).

CSP remains "The technology that will save humanity."  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see "Total of 8500 MW of CSP planned for 2014 in U.S. alone").

The easiest way to deal with the intermittency of the sun is cheap storage — and thermal storage is much cheaper and has a...

Obama announces $2 billion investment in solar PV manufacturing and "the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night." - "What's more, over 70 percent of the components and products us

In his weekly radio, the  President announced he was putting $2 billion into two solar energy projects, including Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload).

CSP remains "The technology that will save humanity."  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see "Total of 8500 MW of CSP planned for 2014 in U.S. alone").

The easiest way to deal with the intermittency of the sun is cheap storage — and thermal storage is much cheaper and has a...

Obama announces $2 billion investment in solar PV manufacturing and "the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night." - "What's more, over 70 percent of the components and products us

In his weekly radio, the  President announced he was putting $2 billion into two solar energy projects, including Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload).

CSP remains "The technology that will save humanity."  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see "Total of 8500 MW of CSP planned for 2014 in U.S. alone").

The easiest way to deal with the intermittency of the sun is cheap storage — and thermal storage is much cheaper and has a...

Obama announces $2 billion investment in solar PV manufacturing and "the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night." - "What's more, over 70 percent of the components and products us

In his weekly radio, the  President announced he was putting $2 billion into two solar energy projects, including Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload).

CSP remains "The technology that will save humanity."  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see "Total of 8500 MW of CSP planned for 2014 in U.S. alone").

The easiest way to deal with the intermittency of the sun is cheap storage — and thermal storage is much cheaper and has a...

Obama announces $2 billion investment in solar PV manufacturing and "the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night." - "What's more, over 70 percent of the components and products us

In his weekly radio, the  President announced he was putting $2 billion into two solar energy projects, including Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload).

CSP remains "The technology that will save humanity."  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see "Total of 8500 MW of CSP planned for 2014 in U.S. alone").

The easiest way to deal with the intermittency of the sun is cheap storage — and thermal storage is much cheaper and has a...

Obama announces $2 billion investment in solar PV manufacturing and "the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night." - "What's more, over 70 percent of the components and products us

In his weekly radio, the  President announced he was putting $2 billion into two solar energy projects, including Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload).

CSP remains "The technology that will save humanity."  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see "Total of 8500 MW of CSP planned for 2014 in U.S. alone").

The easiest way to deal with the intermittency of the sun is cheap storage — and thermal storage is much cheaper and has a...

Best BP jokes

More BP jokes welcome!

"Scientists say they have developed a car that can run on water. The only catch is, the water has to come from the Gulf of Mexico." — Jay Leno

"Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is they think now that the oil spill will be diluted by the melting ice caps." —David Letterman

There's certainly plenty of grim news from the golf.  Here's some of the best jokes I've seen (culled from a

The Declaration of Interdependence

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are...

John Kerry: Why I won't back down on climate change - "Climate instability and our oil addiction present immediate, direct threats to America's national security."

A carbon-pricing plan will decrease our dependence on foreign oil, create American jobs, lower energy bills, and protect our environment. This will be the measure of a real bill, and I'm prepared to fight to get this done, following the strategy Winston Churchill laid out at the outbreak of World War II: "Never give in, never give in — never, never, never, never."

That's the rousing final paragraph of a column by the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Foreign Policy...

Science Explained: Greenhouse effect in a bottle

Interesting video: "Scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock from EADS Astrium visits the Royal Institution's new Young Scientist Centre to carry out a simple experiment that shows how CO2 traps heat. "

Of course, the BBC can't help itself in bending over backwards to the point of breaking in its absurd scientific impartiality:

CO2, along with a range of other greenhouse gases, is often implicated in global warming. But what is its role in the greenhouse effect?

Yes, "CO2, along with a range of...