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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh The United States spends almost $500 billion annually purchasing energy from other countries. Resources. [ 1 ] [link] , [link]. [

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). The cap-and-trade program will begin regulating emissions in January 2012. Sources: In 2012–electricity generators and large industrial sources.

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