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Capstone (CPST) develops and manufactures fuel agnostic (gas or liquid: Low Pressure Natural Gas, High Pressure Natural Gas, Compressed Natural Gas, Diesel, Gaseous Propane, Kerosene, "Sour" Gas, Landfill Gas, and Digester Gas.) microturbines for commercial and industrial use. Their turbines range from 30 kilowatts to 1 Megawatt. For reference, 1 MW will power approx 250 homes or a good sized office building.<o:p></o:p><o:p>
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Capstone was started in 1988 and originally planned to concentrate on smaller turbines, using their patented air bearing technology, to develop power for the h

This is the first of a short series of articles where I plan on reviewing how my stock recommendations have been doing this year.  I started the year bringing you 10 Alternative Energy Stocks I thought were worth speculating on for 2008, and I'll start this review with those articles, and also give you updates on what's been happening (or not) with the stocks.  Click on the company name a link to the original article where I wrote about the stock.

Overall, a portfolio with equal dollar positions in these ten stocks is up 11.4% for the year, compared to the S&P 500 which is down 4.2

I'm more than a little obsessed with finding investmentswhich will increase with the price of oil, but not contribute to globalwarming. This is quite tricky, because most forms of renewable energyproduce electricity, which we cannot use in our current fleet of cars. Biofuels (even cellulosic)can be used in cars, but are limited by supply of feedstock, and by the environmental degradation that growing and collecting biofuel feedstocks can cause. Not to mention the impact on food prices (despite the fact that this may help poor farmers even as ithurts poor city-dwellers.)<!--more-->

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