Does the President see this as kind of an arc, due to any overarching factors like decreased power of OPEC or dispersion of al Qaeda -- is there any -- are there any starting factors that the President sees crediting for this unrest?

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Despite all the talk of grid-based energy storage, the least expensive solution to the variability of wind and solar power is geographic dispersion, according to Leo Casey, Chief Technology Officer of Boston-based inverter company Satcon Technology, (NASD:SATC) speaking at the Building Energy 11 conference in Boston on March 9th.

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But the dispersion of power also means there is now a tendency towards stagnation, because there are huge vested interests against change, even of a moderate and sensible kind.

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