And to think, hell know, we started down the solar and into other alternative sources some forty years ago only to be blocked by the same special interests that are blocking and funding the new meme's of, denial of climate change, while those that we shipped our experienced innovative trades to starting around the same time have taken those earlier working attempts and done the improving on and are now rapidly manufacturing and installing while still innovating on the products for better performance. That which we here in the states used to for our industries as well as the new we developed. Solar, Wind, Microgrids, you name it they're adding it to their already stable of economic growth industries, and in most cases U.S. companies and especially investments are right alongside of them, in China and elsewhere and not in the U.S.!
9/23/2012 - Pick any stretch of road slicing through the American Southwest. The sun beats down on the asphalt like nowhere else, and heat waves distort the landscape.
It's here, in these open expanses, that experts say is a massive untapped source of energy that could meet the nation's growing needs. But only if developers can get it out of the desert.
Even as renewable power projects get a boost from the federal government, a lack of transmission lines prevent states such as New Mexico - where the sun shines more than 300 days a year - from converting the obvious potential into real watts that can charge smartphones and run air conditioners thousands of miles away.
Aside from Phoenix, the nation's sixth-largest city, and Las Vegas, which glows around the clock, the region's rural stretches - the ideal places for acres of solar panels - have few energy demands. And sending solar power from there to population centers isn't as simple as loading coal into boxcars and shipping it cross country.
"We have incredible renewable energy resources," U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said during a visit earlier this year to a solar research lab in New Mexico. "The bad news is they're where there are not many people. We need a distribution system that can accommodate that." read more>>>
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