In 50 years of making bourbon barrels, no one had ever offered Leroy McGinnis more than what he charged for them. But over the past six months, multiple distillers have offered to pay him $250 a barrel-a 70% premium above the $150 list price. The offer illustrates just how scarce bourbon barrels have become.

Once again, Google tops the list of in demand employers for undergraduate computer science majors, according to a new survey.

The solar industry is going through both a transformation and rebalancing. Distributed rooftop installations have grabbed headlines and solar panels on houses are becoming a prominent sign of the technology’s improving economics. But the real story has been the rise of ground mounted, utility scale solar projects, which in some cases cover swaths of land as large as thousands of football fields