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A paper on rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity and market penetration in the U.S., written by three National Renewable Energy Laboratory colleagues (Easan Drury, Paul Denholm and Robert Margolis), shows that fully 1 gigawatt (GW) of the world’s 15 gigawatts of solar PV was installed in the U.S. alone by December of 2009.

The BP oil disaster has captured the eyes of billions, and rightly so.  However, I am choosing not to introduce this post with a news update on the latest from the tragedy -- you'll get enough while reading the top ten.

EDITOR'S UDPATE (Tues. June 29th):  You can now try your hand at stopping the Gulf oil leak by playing XBox's new Crisis in the Gulf video game.

BP has announced it will use all of the net revenues it earns from selling oil it skims from the ocean's surface or collects from the siphon placed on the busted pipe at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico towards a wildlife fund.

Well the news coming from the Gulf of Mexico continues to become more alarming; the images more shocking; and the calls for a solution increasing to a fever pitch. 

Today oil reached the beaches of Pensacola, Florida, and scientists estimate it could flow all the way up the coast to North Carolina before pooling out into the middle of the Atlantic ocean.

I have lived in the Pensacola for almost my entire life. We’ve survived numerous hurricanes, red tides, droughts, and all kinds of natural disasters, but what we’re seeing in our town today is without a doubt the worse than any of those previous catastrophes.

News about the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico is getting worse. 

On Thursday, scientists released a computer modeling study which showed the oil from BP's busted pipe may spread out thousands of miles along the Atlantic coast.

EDITOR'S UDPATE (Tues. June 29th):  You can now try your hand at stopping the Gulf oil leak by playing XBox's new Crisis in the Gulf video game.

Just hit play and the live feed starts.

The Ocean Circulation Group at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science has posted their latest predictions on the spread of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill for the next 4 days.

The effects of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill continue to get worse -- the U.S. federal government has now almost tripled the size of the area of the Gulf which is closed to fishing.