"Waiting for the Sun..."

Not sure what that Doors' song was all about (or what almost anything Morrison wrote was all about), but this lyric caught my attention: "Now that Spring has come/That it's time to live in the scattered sun."

Keep in mind, I was coming out of a Senate Environment hearing on solar energy at the time.

Anyway, the "main event" today was Interior Secretary Ken Salazar back among his former Senate peers and touting the potential for solar energy. Some of the numbers the Colorado native tossed out today?

• DOI has received 128 applications for solar development on public lands that would be worth 77,000 MW of electricity capacity.
• DOI has deemed 23-million acres of public land to be "highly suitable" for solar development.
• DOI is "fast-tracking" 13 commercial-scale projects with 4,500 MW capacity, and all should be approved and moving by the end of this year.

Raining on solar's parade (which naturally brings to mind "The Soft Parade"...different Doors album, though), Senator Kit Bond. The Missouri Republican produced chart after chart detailing what he said were US solar companies taking Stimulus funding and investing in foreign production/manufacturing.

Here's my wrap of Secretary Salazar's appearance today. We had a lot going on today, so please be patient until the story hits.

You know, "Waiting for the...Fun". (that was awful, sorry)