Here are a few interesting tidbits and links from the last few days.

gCaptain.com provides a list of top ten most interesting wind turbine designs.  And also a list of the top ten green ship designs with some great photos and illustrations.

gCaptain is not exactly a green products guide -- but if you have an interest in things nautical, this is a great site.

Biofuels Digest has compiled a list of their top 50 bioenergy companies -- an interesting mix of VC funded firms like Sapphire and Coskata and massive public corn ethanol firms like Poet.  Here are their top five:

1. Coskata
2. Sapphire Energy
3. Virent Energy Systems
4. Poet
5. Range Fuels

Billion Dollar Dreams

There's a shard of an article in CPV Today in which SolFocus’ CEO Mark Crowley is quoted as saying his firm will be a $1 billion business by 2011.  Does he mean $1 billion in revenue?  That would be what? 50 to 100X revenue growth in two years? That borders on fantasy, I think.  Does he mean $1 billion in market cap as a public company?

Is this really the growth expectations that SolFocus has?  I’m tracking this down and trying to get a clarification from the company.

Gridpocalypse Now

“Smart Grid” vies for leading buzzword of the year along with “bailout,” “stimulus” and “teabagging.”  Hundreds of millions in the form of spending and tax cuts are being directed towards smart buildings, demand response and transmission network upgrades.

Unfortunately, the great solar space storm of 2012 is going to render all of that hardware into slag metal and vault us back to the fifties.  The 1450s.

In a report report funded by NASA and issued by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in January this year, there are scenarios that show millions of Americans dead, water shortages, food shortages, cats marrying dogs, and a general collapse of government and society.  Read about that cheery report right here.  And have a good day.