BEDFORD, MA – March 31, 2010 – Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing solar system integration services, capital equipment and turnkey manufacturing lines to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) modules, today reported record revenues for the year ended December 31, 2009 of $69.9 million not including revenues from our discontinued operations, a 7.6% increase from $65.0 million in 2008.

Work is set to begin on California's Red Bluff Diversion Dam Fish Passage Improvement Project, which is part of the nation's largest Department of the Interior economic stimulus project.

In 1980, three young professionals decided to embark on an anthology of the early and modern dreamers of a sustainable biomass-based transportation system. Two reporters for legendary news muckraker Jack Anderson and an energy aide to Senator Javits (me) decided to pull together the disparate pieces of a long and complex history as well as the modern drivers of a road to sustainable energy.

BlueChip Energy™, (BCE), a provider of complete solar energy solutions for residential, commercial, government and utility applications, today announced a power purchase agreement to supply Progress Energy Florida with renewable solar photovoltaic (PV) power from the Rinehart Solar Farm, a 10 MW utility-scale solar PV facility the company is developing in Central Florida.

Join Solar Energy International (SEI) for its annual Building for the Future workshop in Colorado's beautiful Roaring Fork Valley May 10-14.

An international team of scientists has decoded the genome of a songbird -- the Australian zebra finch -- to reveal intriguing clues about the genetic basis and evolution of vocal learning. The research provides insights to help scientists understand how humans learn language.

What makes some viral infections fatal and others much less severe is largely a mystery. It is thought that a part of the variability can be attributed to differences in how individuals respond to infection. Researchers now describe how computer modeling could be a powerful tool to allow treatments to be tailored to individuals. This approach could ultimately prevent future pandemics.