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Source:A new report shows that the U.S. is central to the global solar supply chain. In 2010, U.S. solar firms achieved a positive trade flow of $1.9 billion globally, according to GTM Research and SEIA's . Photovoltaic (PV) components accounted for more than 99% of the year's exports, with solar heating and cooling (SHC) claiming the remainder of the positive balance.

As a wee bonus, here's the Team of the Week from the previous Saturday...

The third option is speculative, based on the theory of preemption. The nomination of the respective successors of CJSC and COAS be done on seniority bases and announced on 14 Aug, independence day; as was done (in advance) in the case of Gen Aslam Baig. In such an eventuality, Quetta and Rawalpindi corps commanders will be the top guns for consideration.

The two big shots focus on a key point that it is the market, rather than regulation or the glacial international negotiations, that is most likely to bring about a clean energy revolution. In a sense it is beginning to happen: a recent report by Deutsche Bank found that the sun is now producing electricity at the same cost as the grid in India and Italy. But there is a long way to go before anything like this happens in less-sunny Britain.