Peter - A Way of Life

Solar power may be cheaper than electricity generated by fossil fuels and nuclear reactors within three to five years because of innovations, said Mark M. Little, the global research director for General Electric Co. (GE)

“If we can get solar at 15 cents a kilowatt-hour or lower, which I’m hopeful that we will do, you’re going to have a lot of people that are going to want to have solar at home,” Little said yesterday in an interview in Bloomberg’s Washington office. The 2009 average U.S. retail rate per kilowatt-hour for electricity ranges from 6.1 cents inWyoming to 18.1 cents in Connecticut, according to Energy Information Administration data released in April.

GE, based in Fairfield, Connecticut, announced in April that it had boosted the efficiency of thin-film solar p

If you need to move on, to reach your goal, to achieve something, no matter great or tiny, personal or a more broader view, you need something to drive you on, something which you can get charged, you need a source of power, or several sources of power, it can be simple objects, the desire of material stuffs, like wanna buy a car, a house, or from more spiritual & mental desires, like the love of your children, parents, for men, naturally, a women; for women, a men.

it is very important that you have goals in your life,  otherwise you will be wandering around without focus, wasting your time, resources and energy; and it is also important that you have a source of power, which can power you to achieve your dreams.

Warren Buffett wants to use his almost $40 billion pile of cash to pursue bigger acquisitions. That may put companies from Archer Daniels Midland Co. to General Dynamics Corp. andExelon Corp. in his sights.

The 80-year-old billionaire investor and chairman of Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said in his annual letter to shareholders on Feb. 26 that he was looking for “more major acquisitions,” a year after spending $26.5

The following letter sent in 1939 from Ernest Buffett to his son Fred was part of Warren Buffett's letter to stockholders. Ernest was Warren's grandfather; Fred was an uncle.

“Dear Fred & Catherine:

Over a period of a good many years I have known a great many people who at some time or another have suffered in various ways simply because they did not have ready cash. I have known people who have had to sacrifice some of their holdings in order to have money that was necessary at that time.

For a good many years your grandfather kept a certain amount of money where he could put his hands on it in very short notice.

For a number of years I have made it a point to keep a reserve, should some occasion come up where I would need money quickly, without disturbing the money that I have in my business. There have been a couple occasions when I found it very convenient to go to this fund.

Thus, I feel that everyone should have a reserve. I hope it

“ At the bottom the ability to buy securities — particularly common stocks — successfully is the ability to look ahead accurately. Looking backward, however carefully, will not suffice, and may do more harm than good. Common stock selection is a difficult art—naturally, since it offers large rewards for success. it requires a skillful mental balance between the facts of the past and the possibilities of the future.”

                                           —— Benjamin Graham & Spencer B. Meredith

"I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious."

                                             —— Albert Einstein

五一在广州购书中心买的爱因斯坦传，”Einstein – His Life and Universe” Walter Isaacson，开始读了不到100页，感觉很难理解吧，狭义相对论，什么的，太多物理的东西了，就放下了，打算送给表哥去读了。 从上个月吧，又拿起来读了，对那些物理的东西呢，就睁一只眼闭一只眼吧，读来还还蛮有趣的，可能是因为自己太没有生活了，所以很喜欢读别人的生活（就像女孩子们喜欢读明星的八卦一样吧，哈哈),知道人不完美，再伟大的人物也有尺有所短的地方，读一个人的一生真的会学到很多东西，成功可能是暂时的，失败也可能会是后续成功的基础，人家说失败是成功之母嘛。

今晚应该可以看完了，多少也有五百多页呢。

还好啊，自己不是造物者，不然，爱因斯坦很可能就被我放在瑞士Born的小专利局里了解一生了，还好，自己还是读完了。

希望能多读写类似的书吧，多了解些人物，历史，什么的。

还能顺便学几个单词!

“ Einstein’s repeated failures in seeking a unified theory did not soften his skepticism  about quantum mechanics. Niels Bohr, his frequent sparring partner, came to the Institute for a stay in 1948 and spent part of his time writing an essay on their debates at the Solvay Conferences before the war. Struggling with the article in his office on floor above Einstein’s, he developed writer’s block and called in Abraham Pais to help him. As Bohr paced furiously around an oblong table, Pais coaxed him and took notes.

When he got frustrated, Bohr sometimes would simply sputter the same word over and over. Soon he was doing so with Einstein’s name. He walked to the window and kept muttering , over and over, “Einstein… Einstein… “

At one such moment, Einstein softly opened the door, and tiptoed in, and signaled to Pais not to say anything. He had come to steal a bit of tobacco, which his doctor ordered him not to bu