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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">On my way out the door:</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The US Department of Energy is supporting Calisolar’s silicon cell manufacturing plant with $275 million in loan guarantees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Calisolar’s new facility, located in an old auto plant, will cut the cost of processed silicon by more than half and produce the materials for 2 gigawatts of solar power each year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.energy.gov/news/10376.htm"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.energy.gov/news/10376.htm</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Ecologist</i> takes on thorium reactors: untested, greatly more expensive than current nuclear plants, and not as clean as has been claimed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They begin to look like yet another covert and bogus argument against the transition to renewable power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In that they join grain ethanol, natural gas, and the fuel cell for private transportation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Like those red herrings, I will ignore thorium technology unless something genuinely more hopeful surfaces about it.
</font><a href="http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/952238/dont_believe_the_spin_on_thorium_being_a_greener_nuclear_option.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/952238/dont_believe_the_spin_on_thorium_being_a_greener_nuclear_option.html</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In celebration of July 4 we have Al Gore’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
Rolling Stone</i> article, “Climate of Denial.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Here is the core of it: we are destroying the climate balance that is essential to the survival of our civilization. This is not a distant or abstract threat; it is happening
now. The United States is the only nation that can rally a global effort to save our future. And the president is the only person who can rally the United States.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Gore issues a call to patriotic action and, in the end, to action not just by the president but by all of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/climate-of-denial-20110622"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/climate-of-denial-20110622</font></a></p>
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