Writing this from Gotham, The Big Apple, where I’m attending a renewable energy financing workshop (if you’re interested in content from there, visit the Montara Energy Ventures site where you’ll see some postings shortly.) It’s pretty warm here (and has recently started to rain.)

The conference is in the Waldorf Astoria, now a Hilton property. It’s a grand old building, the rooms are spacious, but somewhat run down. There is a great curry place on 46th St and Lexington called Darbar Indian (not Joy Indian virtually next door.) Had a very hot lamb vindaloo dish last night after a 12 hour door to door trip yesterday on airplanes and taxis. An aside, I could have made it to Europe with time on airplane yesterday, 3 hours on ground hold in Chicago due to weather. Yuck.

In any case, American Airlines ought to be making a profit. The planes I’ve been on are overbooked and the airports are choked with people. There doesn’t seem to be much elasticity in capacity right now, they’re running as close to 100% (at least on these routes) as I’ve seen. It doesn’t make travel comfortable or efficient. That’s all for now, back in SFO late Thursday pm.