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Solar energy, however, will not be able to compete economically with fossil fuels, although existing tax credits and subsidies encourage homeowners to use some technologies, the report's author. Michael Shapiro, a former associate professor and the current chief of the Regulation Impacts Branch of the Environmental Protection Agency, says...
...study, which was done on a $75,000 grant from the Department of Energy, focuses especially on Boston's solar energy possibilities, Lee said. Shapiro said he conducted the research because there had been little previous analysis on urban solar feasibility...
...urban areas, the argument in the past has been that surrounding structures preclude solar energy," Shapiro said this week. The study, which looked at a random sampling of buildings in the Boston area, concludes that "physical accessibility to sunlight should not, per se, prevent substantial application of solar technologies in urban areas such as Boston...
...Shapiro stressed that his report does not necessarily advocate increasing solar energy investments, but rather provides new data on it. "One has to make a policy decision as to whether one wants to subsidize solar energy," he said...
That prospect troubles many economists and businessmen who applaud what Reagan is trying to do. Says Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME's Board of Economists: "With only a little additional bad luck, the Government could experience a deficit of $100 billion." Adds DuPont Chairman Irving Shapiro: "I have a lot of trouble with this new economic religion. No businessman would run his business on the basis of an untested thesis...