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A flock of sheep grazes among sun-tracing photovoltaic panels installed at Solarpark in Rodenas, North Friesland. Photograph: Bert Bostelmann/Getty Images
This is the new reality:
Solar Plant in Space gets the Go-Ahead
California regulators on Thursday went where no regulators have gone before — approving a utility contract for the nation’s first space-based solar power plant.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/solar-plant-in-space-gets-go-ahead/?hp
Harvey Wasserman writes:
Throughout the US, while the corporate media hypes a "renaissance" of new nukes, facts on the ground say the opposite is happening. The longer that trend continues, the more likely we are to win a world powered by the Solartopian technologies that really work, including wind, solar, geothermal, sustainable bio-fuels, increased efficiency/conservation, and more……..