David Gelbaum of the Quercus Trust is chairman of the board.  Your facts are wrong, they merged with Worldwater before the 3rd quarter.  The merger was originally described as giving Worldwater a competitive edge selling ENTECH’s CPV product and they announced over 100MW of deals in Spain and Italy that never materialized.  Saying the merger was to market Entech’s THERMOVOLT product seems a little simplistic.  Worldwater bought Entech for over $40million in cash and stock.

“The Entech layoffs could be a warning sign for competitors, like Distributed Solar Power and Millennium Electric from Israel and Cool Energy in Boulder, Colo. Like Entech, these companies are trying to break into the broader solar market with two-way devices.”

Why in the world would you say that?  They appear to not be ready to sell their cpvt product yet and the layoffs are at the Worldwater offices, not at ENTECH Texas.  The layoffs were expected in N.J. and Calif as they exited the flat panel system business.  What happens at ENTECH cannot be simply extrapolated to other pvt businesses.  Few companies have Worldwater’s recent history: doubling their head count with increasing losses, replacing management and the board of directors and basically closing down their old revenue stream by exiting the flat panel system business.

I was reviewing your GreenTech Market taxonomy chart and would like to know where your chart would include solar thermal technology for generating heat not electric power? So often overlooked as a demand side management and a generation technology, solar heating is only a conversion factor away from producing power instead of thermal energy. We need to begin to view heating in kWhrs so that we can equate them to therms and therms are actually used in turbines do generate kWhrs so we can compare them more accurately. This is a taxonomy issue and it is retarding the use of solar thermal applications in favor of more costly but more adaptable electrical systems. Today we can place kWhrs meters on solar thermal systems to show the energy they produce. Maybe with this device we will be considered a generation technology maybe not.