Solar Power Investment Opportunities

Anything with the word "nano" is hot, including scams. Here is a good place to start research. There are enough interesting stories and links to keep someone occupied for several weeks.
http://news.com.com/Green+tech+powers+forward/2009-1008_3-6106533.html

Any company that can supply the raw materials needed for PV cell production. Taking into consideration this so called "shortage of raw materials" due to increased demand of the raw materials needed to manufacture PV cells, I would think that anybody that owns mineral rights to lands containing the silicon needed for PV cell construction would be living better than royalty.

(Is that not what life on Earth for human beings is all about? Finding a natural resource and claiming it as ones own and then exploiting it for all its wealth. I suppose all one has to do is look at human history to know if this were true or not. I see no reason why the PV industry would be any different than the other industries despite the proclamations made, via advertising, of saving the environment. Pity about Earth. I mean, what good is Earth to human beings without an environment to achieve those lofty goals I mention above?)

As for a name, that I cannot help you with.

Solar Cell Production Equipment Market

According to this article, the total market for commercial solar cell production equipment will grow from revenues of $1.2 billion in 2006 to $4.5 billion in 2010.  See the story “Solar gear market shines” at: <http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198701402&cid=RSSfeed_eetimes_semiRSS> or <http://tinyurl.com/2gdxy4>

New Alternatives Fund is a mutual fund that invests in solar, along with other renewable energy systems and more general environmental companies. It is an easy way to get in. And it has done spectacularly well in the past 1/2 year or so, and off and on at other times.

Jim

FSLR the only one you need, pricey, but going much higher.

You can take a look at this site, they have a pretty good list of companies to invest in.
http://www.cleanerenergynow.com/index.php?fuseaction=investing.companies&exchange=DPC&industry=All