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6 What’s New at Solar Today.org
8 Readers Respond
10 Perspective
14 Solar Hero: Ralph Dull
24 View from the States:
California
46 New Products
57 ASES Insights
57 Inside ASES
61 Dates
61 Ad Index
62 Ask the ASES Experts: Q&As
12 new energy
A Party Girl Awakens
By Paul Rogat Loeb
16 advances
Confessions of a Conserveaholic
By Seth Portner
Entrepreneurs to the Rescue
By Gina R. Johnson
EPA Launches Greenhouse Gas Regulation
By Robert Ukeiley
20 tackling climate
change
Doubt for Sale

By Chuck Kutscher

Kurt struve

44

drolg Ar jyid, one e Arth designs

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22 the biz
BYD: An Investor’s Dream?
By Rona Fried, Ph. D.

Installer Alert!

the Get Started 2011 issue of SOLAR TODAY, published for the American solar energy society’s national solar tour, will include the third annual solar Buyers’ guide, a national listing of solar installers. if you’d like to be listed, register now at pros.findsolar.com or contact smasia@solartoday.org.

44 howzit work?
Hybrid Cars: Parallel vs. Series
By Seth Masia
52 the trade
Back to the Basics: Collector Size
By Mick Sagrillo

w.o. field And Bruce f. MolinA for usgs

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54 Solar@Work Digest
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