The Solar Investor | Robin Nelson

Robin C. Nelson, whose spare but elegant writing helped introduce millions of Americans to new products and technologies as an editor of widely read magazines such as Popular Mechanics, Consumers Digest and Personal Computing, and who most recently served as a columnist for Sunpluggers.com, has died. To view Mr. Nelson's obituary, please click here.
Columns
Observing a Lot: And It's Not a Pretty Picture
I don't know if the celebrated former Yankee catcher Yogi Berra ever counseled anybody (or even himself) on investing, but one of his famous malapropisms is as good advice today as you can get from a paid money manager or broker: "You could observe a lot just by watching."
Will 2010 Be a Bright New Year for Solar Industry Stocks?
The stock market seemed to have recovered from its hangover by Jan. 4. But for investors in the right solar-energy equities, it's hard to resist punning that their day was even brighter.