The big-solar push raises an intriguing question: If the country is going to overhaul the way it generates power, why shouldn’t it also overhaul the way that power is distributed?

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The Obama plan could help the US overtake Germany for solar use.

Minor Thoughts found an interesting article on Solar Efficiency. Every day it seems as though we read about a new breakthrough in solar. If it isn’t the material, its the storage. If it isn’t the storage, its the efficiency. Imagine where we would be at the moment if we hadn’t turned [...]

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From an LA Times Story by Susan Carpenter comes a journal of trying to switch to solar. Not to spoil the story, but she doesn’t switch because she would have to trim some trees. That said, from the story I found this:
How do you know whether solar’s right for you? A bunch of [...]

The geek in me found this article fascinating:
The whammy for the power companies is two-fold, because not only will power be cheaper but, by definition, the cost of building and installing solar panels will be substantially cheaper, too, than it is today. If it costs $40,000 on average to refit your house today, a lot [...]

From Eco Wordly:
Danish company AC Sun recently made news with the “invention” a new solar-powered air conditioning system.The new systems are pollution-free, low-noise, and use only 10% of the energy of conventional systems. The only problem is they’ve already been invented, several times over.
Wouldn’t it be nice if energy companies in the future would use [...]