Featured in Time for fresh concepts – 04-2011

The solar revolution goes on

The story of solar electricity: The nineteenth and last part of our series of chapters from John Perlin’s book From Space to Earth looks back at how photovoltaics is turning into a major energy producer, allowing everyone the benefits of electricity without doing harm to our home, planet earth.
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In the United States and Western Europe, hundreds of thousands of remotely situated homes are not connected to power lines. Just as in the developing world, linking these homes to centrally generated electricity costs too much. For example, Public Service of Colorado, one of the state’s largest utilities, requires customers to pay tens of thousands …

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