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Is Solar Thermal Power the Answer?

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Solar energy may be abundant, clean and nondepleting, but capture and distribution continue to be the main challenges.

Charles Ricker, BrightSource Energy Inc.

The sun is the source of virtually all of the energy we use. Fossil fuel energy started out as sunlight on plants. In the relative blink of a historical eye, however, we have significantly depleted the fossil fuels that took millions of years to create. Currently, they provide 86 percent of all the energy we consume, and now we have discovered that burning these fuels at this rate is threatening mankind’s very existence. Propelled by the twin forces of extremely high prices and the awareness of the harm caused by using fossil fuels, Earth’s citizens are demanding change. Solar energy is...Read full article

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