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April 30, 2008

Dedicated to my Tango-dancing professor friend… Keep it up, my man!

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@ataussig with Stion we are obviously betting on high efficiency thin film. And I am also curiously following p-Si progress & cost ramp down 3 hours ago

@ScottKirsner I have no clue who could be trying to get to the city. But if I had to I would guess Polaris. 5 hours ago

Low $/kwhr and low $/watt capex will eventually win. RT @ataussig: Wow, thin film PV at 31% market share by 2013: http://bit.ly/4cTvO4 5 hours ago

Testing Vlingo on my BlackBerry . My accent sucks. 22 hours ago

@ataussig Ref past peak oil fields: I wonder what their capacity is with EOR? 1 day ago

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