Sun has long understood the need for broad industry coordination on energy efficient technology and sees The Green Grid as a complimentary effort to its work aligning the industry around a standard metric for energy consumption.

If we've got all this energy beneath our feet, why can't we use it? The answer is technology.

Technology conversions are major events for an organization -- encompassing multiple years and millions of dollars -- in this case $9 million. It's very ambitious and we wanted to do it right. It's a system-wide effort with a steadfast focus on our vision of providing even better patient outcomes by improving provider satisfaction, productivity and quality of care.

The technology has not only as much promise, but even more promise than wind energy.

When commodity prices and energy prices weaken, technology stocks usually pick up the leadership and strengthen because they can move inversely to those two areas.

As technology advances, the boundaries between different disciplines of technology are blurring -- such as what we are seeing with the use of nanotechnology and information technologies in health care delivery.