The Union Budget 2010, presented recently by Pranab Mukherjee, the Union Finance Minister of India, offers a bag of goodies to players in the area of solar photovoltaics. Here are some of the proposals: * The Finance Minster has proposed to increase the Plan Outlay for the Ministry of New and...

Here’s an interesting bit of trivia: the Cadillac Ranch, the peculiar paean to the open road that lies just west of Amarillo, Tex., was created under the patronage of Stanley Marsh 3, a local, rather eccentric helium tycoon. The National Helium Reserve consists of an underground store near...