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My Picks for Wednesday November 11, 2009 are:

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SOPW, Solar Power, Inc., SOPW.OB

SOPW is a vertically integrated solar energy solution provider offering the North American commercial and public sector building markets a complete solution through a single brand. Throughout Europe, Asia and Australia the Company sells its products direct to distributors and turnkey solutions providers.

** SOPW and Aerojet (a GenCorp company) have entered into agreement to add an additional 2.4 megawatts to the single-axis tracker photovoltaic solar system currently installed at Aerojet’s Sacramento, California site. Construction of the 3.6 megawatt solar system at Aerojet’s facility was initiated

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Clenergen Corp. is a developer of clean biomass power generation systems, with its current focus on the nation of India. The company is using a unique approach to use specifically-grown biomass feedstock in order to power its generators.

The company has gained access to acreage in India for plantations in which to grow specific plants as biomass feedstock for power generation plants. A footprint of only 4,000 acres is sufficient to generate up to 16MW per hour of electricity on an annual basis.

The first plant that Clenergen has identified is a high calorific strain of bamboo (Beema Bamboo) which is capable of producing over 60 tons of biomass a year after year 3 and can be coppiced – cutting it down to near ground level so that many new shoots will appear – on an annual basis.

Clenergen has also identified a

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Clenergen Corp., developer of clean biomass power generation systems using specifically grown biomass crops, is actively engaged in developing its first project in India. The plan is to develop a 10 megawatt/hour power plant in Namakkal, Tamilnadu, on the southern tip of India. The plant will be fed by a biomass gasification facility using biomass supplied by Clenergen’s plantations in Tamilnadu.

The first step was the agreement to allow Clenergen to acquire an existing 1.5 megawatt/hour biomass power generating plant in Namakkal. The plant uses anerobic digestion technology to process agricultural waste using GE Jenbacher Gas engines. The unit, which successfully demonstrated the use of the technology as part of India’s National Demonstration Project, was shut down earlier due to cash flow constraints related to the sale of power to the State Government Utility. More favorable tariffs have since been put in

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An Australian Dollar Play on China’s Growth

Tony Daltorio, The Investment U Research Team

Despite the continuing negative sentiment toward China from much of Wall Street, China’s remarkable economic growth continues unabated.

While Wall Street “experts” focus solely on the export-oriented eastern cities in China, they are missing the rapid growth occurring in other parts of China with the government’s “Go West” program.

And let’s not forget that within a few years, the size of China’s middle class will exceed the entire population of the United States.

However, there are still many investors who are not comfortable investing directly in China and buying Chinese companies.

There is another way to invest profitably in the economic growth in China, of which most investors are completely unaware. And it doesn’t involve owning any Chinese or Asian stocks.

It is the Australian Dollar.

The Australian

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By Cees Bruggemans

At what point does GDP (the value of all goods and services produced in the economy, excluding inflation) stop dropping, ending recession? When does activity start rising again, heralding recovery?

Recession endings and recovery starts depend on what the level of GDP is doing. After spending, output, employment and profits have dropped considerably during recession, the new recovery commences from a level below a year ago.

Most economists prefer to refer to quarterly annualized change in GDP. This is the actual change in GDP for the quarter, scaled up to an annual change (assuming this pace is maintained for four quarters).

If that quarterly number is down, we are still in recession. Only when the change turns positive do we enter recovery.

How far before the whole economy turns? Has any part of the economy already turned or is that impossible, with so much negative news

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By Cees Bruggemans

After massive shocks savaged the economy last year, by 4Q2008 (really already 3Q2008) putting us into recession, the only question basically mattering now is whether there are yet more of these massive shocks to be absorbed shortly. For if we are, we will remain probably repressed, recessed if not depressed for much longer.

But short of a large meteorite striking the southern oceans, and wiping out our living space, I am having little success identifying the rogues that will do us in.

Perhaps I am not looking hard enough?

For could the global banking system still encounter a relapse, with another big bankruptcy, fragile nerves failing once more spectacularly, yet with global policymakers by now having shot away all their ammunitions, their cupboards bare of the means to address yet more catastrophic failures?

Then again, have global policymakers already overreached themselves, burdening their national finances and

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Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDS.A) is progressing well on its agreement with the Iraqi Government for developing a domestic gas infrastructure in the southern part of the country. Yesterday, the Iraqi oil ministry mentioned that it will be submitting a feasibility report on the project to the Government.

Due to a lack of infrastructural facility, nearly 800 MMcf of natural gas is burned off every day from the Basra oil field in Iraq. The Government wants to utilize this gas for domestic electricity production and export the balance, if any.

In September 2008, Shell and Iraq’s South Gas Company had signed an agreement to produce gas from key oil fields in southern Basra province. For this, they will form a joint venture with Shell holding 49% interest and South Gas Company owning the rest. Both companies are expecting the final deal to be signed within a year.

Royal

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By Cees Bruggemans

The green shoots are apparently reaching higher.

A cyclical gear change is underway, in which 2Q2009 will show much less of a GDP decline than 1Q2009. Either 3Q2009 or 4Q2009 will probably show the first cyclical uptick in our output, heralding renewed expansion.

In the US, the May non-farm payrolls gave their first positive surprise, declining by ‘only’ 345 000 jobs. The market had expected a decline of 550 000, which would have been a more modest improvement from the 660 000 average declines these past six months.

The April payroll decline was simultaneously revised down by 25 000, reinforcing the perception of reducing job losses. As job losses are a lagging indicator, these changes reinforce the view of the US economy stabilizing and shortly (3Q2009) coming out of recession.

US unemployment in

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The other day I had lunch with a “brain trust,” of sorts.  Participants included a retired executive from an aerospace company.  This guy helped design and build many of the reconnaissance satellites that the U.S. has launched.  There was a senior executive from a large steel company.  There was a venture capitalist who made his first $500 million in the software industry, and who now has much of that wealth spread around in biotech and nanotech startups.  There was a former senior political appointee who worked in the Treasury Department.  And then there was me.

“Climate Change” Driving Policy Now

According to the satellite builder, the dominant elements of the political and media culture are “completely in the tank” when it comes to believing in the dangers of “climate change.”  It’s not as if climate change is demonstrably true, he pointed out.  There are valid scientific data from both sides of the

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