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Shortages of Solar photovoltaic, or PV, panels
August 5, 2005 -- American suppliers for the solar energy industry say that burgeoning demand both domestically and overseas, a weak dollar and shortages of raw material have created back orders of several months on electricity-generating photovoltaic, or PV, panels.
Germany consumes 39 percent of all solar panels in the world, with Japan next at 30 percent and the United States a distant third at 9 percent.
The shortage of solar panels has led to long waits and inconvenience for many Americans who are ready to spend $10,000 to $20,000 for residential solar power systems of 2,000 to 5,000 watts. The shortage has been made worse because photovoltaic electricity is used to power not only homes but also businesses, boats, recreational vehicles, highway signs and cellphone towers.
Until early 2004, Mr. Lugar said, the price of solar panels was dropping as technology advanced. Since then, manufacturers' prices have risen as much as 15 percent, he said, adding that the purified silicon at the heart of solar panels and computer semiconductors alike had also been in extremely short supply.
Last year I had waits of two weeks for panels. This year it's two to three months."
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081005_world_stories.shtml#6
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Alan Pogue photos
www.documentaryphotographs.com/index.htm
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What is Big Oil going to do with all their cash?
Big Oil tells is sitting – and I mean sitting – on mountains of cash that could actually be saving lives. There is no more serious oil left to find or extract, even at a ridiculous cost. One senior executive at an oil company not involved in the advertising campaigns speculated that his counterparts were attempting to buy themselves some slack to go after the messier, more expensive, dirty oil. Another (oil) executive said it may buy some sympathy for the difficulty many companies are having in growing developing [sic] their production and reserves.
In a slightly more rational world, Big Oil’s money could be providing tax write-offs while at the same time being poured into a crash program for “remedial” energy sources before it’s too late. That money could be used to rebuild America’s railroads. That, more than anything, could save tens of millions of lives in the next fifteen years.
Now that Bush Jr., has signed the energy bill, Big Oil might just start buying up every major power and water utility in the country. They will be allowed to do that now for the first time since the Great Depression.
Comment: In the past 13 months the price of oil futures went up from $44 to $63 or $19 per barrel.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/080505_half_truth.shtml
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Important new details of the US-Israeli espionage case
The full text of the indictment makes clear, the conspiracy involved not just Larry Franklin and the AIPAC officials, but at least several other Pentagon officials who played intermediary roles (United States Government Official 1, USGO 2) at least two other Israeli officials, and one official at a "Washington, D.C. think tank."
Rosen and Weissman were observed making illicit contact with several other US officials between 1999 and 2004
is beginning to look more and more like it involves the same nexus of Pentagon civilians, White House functionaries, and American Enterprise Institute officials who thumped the drums for war in Iraq in 2001-2003 and who are now trying to whip up an anti-Iranian frenzy as well.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905E.shtml
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Four in 9/11 Plot Are Called Tied to Qaeda in '00
The information relied heavily on data-mining techniques, was modeled after those first established by Army intelligence at the Land Information Warfare Assessment Center, now known as the Information Dominance Center, at Fort Belvoir, Va.
In a telephone interview from his home in Pennsylvania, Mr. Weldon said he was basing his assertions on similar ones by at least three other former intelligence officers with direct knowledge of the project, and said that some had first called the episode to his attention shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The former intelligence official said the first Able Danger (Team) report identified all four men as members of a "Brooklyn" cell, and was produced within two months after Mr. Atta arrived in the United States. The former intelligence official said he was among a group that briefed Mr. Zelikow and at least three other members of the Sept. 11 commission staff about Able Danger when they visited the Afghanistan-Pakistan region in October 2003.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905I.shtml
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US holds an oil-supply disruption exercise
August 4, 2005 -- The US recently held a simulated oil-supply disruption simulation/excercise, engineered by the National Commission on Energy Policy and the advocacy group Securing America's Future Energy. Participants took on the roles of members of the U.S. cabinet and were asked to advise the president.
The excercise gamed oil prices rising to a record $120 a barrel and doubling the expected annual petrol bill for the average U.S. household. Economists warned of the imminent collapse of the U.S.'s economic recovery and a loss of more than 2 million jobs.
The oil-supply disruption excercise, codenamed Shockwave, resulted in the conclusion that Americans could probably be persuaded to adjust their behaviors to reduce their oil consumption for about a year if they saw the shortage of oil as an issue of national security.
Also it was learned that using some of the emergency strategic petroleum reserve oil too early could send prices higher, they said, because traders would worry that less emergency oil would be available if a more serious disruption ensued.
"The real problem is year two to five. How do you impose that kind of daily pain on Americans for a three- to four-year period before alternatives can be felt?
With only 2.2m barrels a day of spare capacity, which is enough capacity to meet a little more than one year of demand growth, the oil markets are at the mercy of political stability in Venezuela, Nigeria, and Iraq, as well as potential terrorist acts."
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1a76b890-0518-11da-97da-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=bf499000-f5eb-11d8-b814-00000e2511c8.html
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit for research and educational purposes. MY NEWSLETTER has no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of this article nor is MY NEWSLETTER endorsed or sponsored by the originator.)
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August 5, 2005 -- American suppliers for the solar energy industry say that burgeoning demand both domestically and overseas, a weak dollar and shortages of raw material have created back orders of several months on electricity-generating photovoltaic, or PV, panels.
Germany consumes 39 percent of all solar panels in the world, with Japan next at 30 percent and the United States a distant third at 9 percent.
The shortage of solar panels has led to long waits and inconvenience for many Americans who are ready to spend $10,000 to $20,000 for residential solar power systems of 2,000 to 5,000 watts. The shortage has been made worse because photovoltaic electricity is used to power not only homes but also businesses, boats, recreational vehicles, highway signs and cellphone towers.
Until early 2004, Mr. Lugar said, the price of solar panels was dropping as technology advanced. Since then, manufacturers' prices have risen as much as 15 percent, he said, adding that the purified silicon at the heart of solar panels and computer semiconductors alike had also been in extremely short supply.
Last year I had waits of two weeks for panels. This year it's two to three months."
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081005_world_stories.shtml#6
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Alan Pogue photos
www.documentaryphotographs.com/index.htm
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What is Big Oil going to do with all their cash?
Big Oil tells is sitting – and I mean sitting – on mountains of cash that could actually be saving lives. There is no more serious oil left to find or extract, even at a ridiculous cost. One senior executive at an oil company not involved in the advertising campaigns speculated that his counterparts were attempting to buy themselves some slack to go after the messier, more expensive, dirty oil. Another (oil) executive said it may buy some sympathy for the difficulty many companies are having in growing developing [sic] their production and reserves.
In a slightly more rational world, Big Oil’s money could be providing tax write-offs while at the same time being poured into a crash program for “remedial” energy sources before it’s too late. That money could be used to rebuild America’s railroads. That, more than anything, could save tens of millions of lives in the next fifteen years.
Now that Bush Jr., has signed the energy bill, Big Oil might just start buying up every major power and water utility in the country. They will be allowed to do that now for the first time since the Great Depression.
Comment: In the past 13 months the price of oil futures went up from $44 to $63 or $19 per barrel.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/080505_half_truth.shtml
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Important new details of the US-Israeli espionage case
The full text of the indictment makes clear, the conspiracy involved not just Larry Franklin and the AIPAC officials, but at least several other Pentagon officials who played intermediary roles (United States Government Official 1, USGO 2) at least two other Israeli officials, and one official at a "Washington, D.C. think tank."
Rosen and Weissman were observed making illicit contact with several other US officials between 1999 and 2004
is beginning to look more and more like it involves the same nexus of Pentagon civilians, White House functionaries, and American Enterprise Institute officials who thumped the drums for war in Iraq in 2001-2003 and who are now trying to whip up an anti-Iranian frenzy as well.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905E.shtml
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Four in 9/11 Plot Are Called Tied to Qaeda in '00
The information relied heavily on data-mining techniques, was modeled after those first established by Army intelligence at the Land Information Warfare Assessment Center, now known as the Information Dominance Center, at Fort Belvoir, Va.
In a telephone interview from his home in Pennsylvania, Mr. Weldon said he was basing his assertions on similar ones by at least three other former intelligence officers with direct knowledge of the project, and said that some had first called the episode to his attention shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The former intelligence official said the first Able Danger (Team) report identified all four men as members of a "Brooklyn" cell, and was produced within two months after Mr. Atta arrived in the United States. The former intelligence official said he was among a group that briefed Mr. Zelikow and at least three other members of the Sept. 11 commission staff about Able Danger when they visited the Afghanistan-Pakistan region in October 2003.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080905I.shtml
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US holds an oil-supply disruption exercise
August 4, 2005 -- The US recently held a simulated oil-supply disruption simulation/excercise, engineered by the National Commission on Energy Policy and the advocacy group Securing America's Future Energy. Participants took on the roles of members of the U.S. cabinet and were asked to advise the president.
The excercise gamed oil prices rising to a record $120 a barrel and doubling the expected annual petrol bill for the average U.S. household. Economists warned of the imminent collapse of the U.S.'s economic recovery and a loss of more than 2 million jobs.
The oil-supply disruption excercise, codenamed Shockwave, resulted in the conclusion that Americans could probably be persuaded to adjust their behaviors to reduce their oil consumption for about a year if they saw the shortage of oil as an issue of national security.
Also it was learned that using some of the emergency strategic petroleum reserve oil too early could send prices higher, they said, because traders would worry that less emergency oil would be available if a more serious disruption ensued.
"The real problem is year two to five. How do you impose that kind of daily pain on Americans for a three- to four-year period before alternatives can be felt?
With only 2.2m barrels a day of spare capacity, which is enough capacity to meet a little more than one year of demand growth, the oil markets are at the mercy of political stability in Venezuela, Nigeria, and Iraq, as well as potential terrorist acts."
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1a76b890-0518-11da-97da-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=bf499000-f5eb-11d8-b814-00000e2511c8.html
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit for research and educational purposes. MY NEWSLETTER has no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of this article nor is MY NEWSLETTER endorsed or sponsored by the originator.)
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