Now IBM wants to play the hybrid game

So Google Alerts is out there sniffing out occurrences of "Hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal" and sometimes brings back a big prize.

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/ibms-concentrated-pvthermal-hybrid-with-water-air-con-82890

Yikes does this look expensive! They say it is not an expensive design concept. I see a part that requires a crane and microchannel (some cooling scheme) multi-junction cells and 2000X concentration - all expensive literally or by implication.

I'm living the "Lean Startup Dream" here at Muppet Labs, so when I see this:

Such a system is currently being developed by researchers at IBM Research, Airlight Energy, ETH Zurich, and Interstate University of Applied Sciences Buchs NTB, after winning a three-year $2.4 million grant from the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation.

Oh, and the video too, where more $ worth of people and gear is on display than I have deployed in the entire course of my project:

OK gotta sleep. Enjoy.