Micro fuel cells are years away from commercial deployment, but considerable R&D is underway funded in part by the military to power portable communications equipment in the field.

They’re not in production yet, so they haven’t been proven. Doing calculations on paper doesn’t mean you can actually do it at the end of the day.

This initiative should allow California, and hence the U.S., to capture a share of the global solar installation market, and may favor (such) companies in the United States.

The solar shortage will be most pronounced in 2006, and we anticipate only modest solar industry production growth of 9 percent.