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...called the Golden State for nothing. California is becoming the nation's leading proving ground for solar energy, accounting for nearly half of all U.S. solar sales of $190 million last year. The state has plenty of sun and plenty of activists who see nonpolluting solar energy as the benign antidote to nuclear power. It also has a generous law-put through by Governor Jerry Brown?that allows 55% of solar costs, up to a maximum of $3,000, to be written off as a credit against state income taxes. The resulting demand has persuaded more than half of America...
...Calif. If this project gets federal funding and goes through, it would be eight times larger than the biggest existing photovoltaic system. Up to now, such systems have generally been confined to remote and inaccessible locations where the costs of providing conventional power are prohibitive. For example, in California solar cells generate energy for Coast Guard buoys, rural water pumps, VHF telecommunications relay towers, automatic weather stations and even an Air Force radar station. In addition, Kansas oil wells use solar electricity to inhibit the rusting of metal; a remote Arizona Indian reservation gets its power from cells, and even...
...needs require a massive reorientation of national policy. Carter needs to propose--and to put pressure on Congress to enact--laws that would shift federal spending away from superhighways into mass transit, laws that would change utility rate structures, laws that would mandate conservation and finance home insulation, solar heating and other energy alternatives. Above all, Carter needs to regain the public's respect for, and willingness to follow a President's lead; with his energy proposals, however, Carter is fast squandering what credibility he has left...
...well as nonconventional sources like coal-bed methane and tidal sands. The future for nuclear energy now looks bleak, and I don't think we will return to a coal-based economy. We are going to have to shift to a new base of energy technologies, such as solar energy, nonconventional gas and perhaps shale oil or liquefied coal...
ADELMAN: If we had not been in such a rush, the reactor accident might have been avoided, but nuclear is now back to the drawing boards. We need less regulation and more development of low-sulfur coal. Solar will grow only slowly, but that is where a lot of R. and D. money ought to be put. Energy R. and D. spending won't help solve anything for ten years, but something may come in big and leave us in a better position at the end of the decade...