There I was years ago caught up with the solar "boom." TIMMINCO was promising a "game changing" technology in manufacturing silica for pannels. My investment in TIMMINCO led me to POET which, at the time, was promising a novel solution to the solar industry as well. The euphoria for TIMMINCO, in the early days, was much the same as it is here on this board. We saw TIMMINCO rise from $3 to $33 until the technology was proven lacking and TIMMINCO became a victim of the bubble burst of 2008.

Due to circumstance I missed the right opportunity to leave TIMMINCO but did get out before loosing money. As for POET, interest in solar waned and they never did breakout with their innovative solar technology (not their fault). I was in the red (still am but have averaged down) but decided not to sell on account of their refocus on the new promising line of operations: the reason we are all here.

Orbite Aluminae is another promissing innovative/revolutionary technology that I was tracking. It was/is promising to processing aluminum but they too have gone through a period of euphoria, $0.30 to $4.8 but now sit at $0.37 after hitting a few snags with their milestones.

I guess my point is and its all too easy to get overly hopeful only to see it all come crashing down. More often than not these "game changing technologies" fail. We must remain minedful of the milestones they have set and their ability to achieve them (preferably on time).

I remain invested in POET but try not to get overly excited and I am very watchful.

That said, I am minedfull that "... if you had the good fortune to have bought 100 Microsoft shares at the $21 offering price and sat on the investment for 25 years, it would have mushroomed into 28,800 shares over the course of 9 splits and be worth about three quarters of a million dollars today."

Good luck to all (including me)