According to the New York Times from October 11, 2012, solar is growing quickly in the United States. For the United States, the growth of solar power was helped by a federal stimulus package that extended a tax credit.
What about around the world?
Countries around the world are beginning to explore the idea of solar energy. China, of course, excelling quite fast with their research. One of the most interesting topics that I’ve come across while doing some research is the solar-powered boat that did a around the world journey for 19 months! Its point? It wanted to prove to us that solar power can in fact power a boat around the world. While passing by different cities around the world it finally sailed to shore In Monaco.
The idea of this boat is from the mind of Raphaël Domjan, who has an informational site called PlanetSolar.org. On this site you can learn more about the boat, their mission and much more.
Efforts around the world are being shown when it comes to using solar power. People are saying that this source of power is much more powerful than we think. Unfortunately, it’s not sunny everyday…The U.S Environmental Protection Agency has a website dedicated to clean energy. Clean Energy Programs are working with state policy makers, electric and gas utilities, as well as energy customers to identify, design and implement clean energy policy and technology solutions. Combining these two ideas and techniques I think our energies issues could be decreasing within the next few decades.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/energy-environment/solar-energy/index.html
http://www.planetsolar.org
http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/basic-information.html
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