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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (4544)	8/8/2006 12:26:45 PM
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SOLAR ENERGY HEATS UP India is Rapidly Developing Solar Energy via Photovoltaic & Thermal Systems By Brook & Gaurav Bhagat Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India A Vast Vineyard of Solar Electricity Kramer Junction in the sunny state of California Editor's Note: Solar energy in its raw form may be pollution-free, but manufacturing the devices that get the energy out of light and heat requires metal and other material, requiring mines and smelters, therein causing pollution. Maybe the most exciting thing about solar energy today is not only that the costs continue to drop and efficiencies continue to rise, but that clean solar energy is arriving at last. New technologies allow new methods of manufacturing which pollute much less, and often run on solar energy. Solar heating and solar electric systems can now generate thermal and electric energy over their service life up to 100 times the energy input during their manufacture. This ratio; the energy it will produce in its lifetime, compared to the amount of energy input to manufacture and maintain an energy system, has doubled in the last 20 years for most solar technologies. The ratio of energy out vs. energy in for solar systems has become so favorable that the economic and ecological viability of solar power is now beyond question. lots more ecoworld.com