Solar Desert Land Grab

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If you're new here, you may want to clipped from money.cnn.com

That’s putting it mildly. A solar land rush is rolling across the desert Southwest. Goldman Sachs, utilities PG&E and FPL, Silicon Valley startups, Israeli and German solar firms, Chevron, speculators - all are scrambling to lock up hundreds of thousands of acres of long-worthless land now coveted as sites for solar power plants.

It’s not just a federal-land grab either. Buyers are also vying for private property. Some are paying upwards of $10,000 an acre for desert dirt that a few years ago would have sold for $500.

No doubt the prospect of potential riches is overheating expectations. But California and surrounding states have mandated massive increases in renewable energy in the next few years. That has led some experts at Emerging Energy Research of Cambridge, Mass., to predict that Big Solar could be a $45 billion market by 2020.

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Solar Energy in India and the Rise of Global Awareness

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Very interesting: “per capita emissions.” Does this mean that in the future, you could be taxed differently than your neighbour depending on what car you drive, how far you commute, how much you recycle.

It’s already slightly that way, for instance you can get tax rebates for buying solar panels.

If it was broken down into ‘per capita emissions’ though, this would be a very different story.

clipped from www.newkerala.com

New Delhi, June 30 : India will put solar energy generation at the forefront of its battle against climate change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced here Monday while releasing the national action plan on climate change.

Emphasising the primacy of developing solar power, Manmohan Singh promised to “pool our scientific, technical and managerial talent, with sufficient financial resources, to develop solar energy as a source of abundant energy to power our economy and to transform the lives of our people”.

He felt success in developing solar energy “will change the face of India. It would also enable India to help change the destinies of people around the world. The plan intends to go beyond government to draw upon these assets”.

“Every citizen of this planet must have an equal share of the planetary atmospheric space. Long-term convergence of per capita emissions is, therefore, the only equitable basis for a global compact on climate change.

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May

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Solar Trading Post Blog Launch

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So glad you could be here for this

At solar trading post, we’re focusing on explaining solar energy in simple terms. Making it easily accessible and useful. We’re into practical information on how to put solar energy to work for you. We’re also really interested in the stats - what the price of solar power is, how it’s changing, and what the latest developments are.

If you’ve any suggestions on how to improve this blog, or any subjects you’d like covered, just email me at naomi[at]solartradingpost.com

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