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The Clean-Energy StatePosted on Jun 23, 2008
The Guardian reports that New Mexico, with its thousands of square miles of sun-soaked, wind-swept land, is vying to become the epicenter of the new green economy. Given the right tax breaks and technological breakthroughs, the Land of Enchantment could become the Saudi Arabia of sun.
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By hawy, June 24 at 10:57 am #
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Really ? It was obvious for anyone having common sense that the US has enough solar power potential to get away from oil. But still today trillions of households in the US fight solar power (i.e. heat) by air conditioners powered by electricity mainly produced by fossile fuel. What a monstrous waste !
Report thisBy jackpine savage, June 23 at 5:27 pm #
Say it ain’t so...people are actually thinking and then acting on the aforementioned thought? I applaud New Mexico for playing to its strengths, though its weakness with water remains.
Note the frustration with the federal government; California shares that frustration; as does any state that tries to actually do something. Which brings to mind that When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them...
Now, let’s talk about reintroducing camels to America to live in harmony with the solar farms.
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