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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

There was a guy that went to China to build a housing project.  He made them 
all solar in the hopes that it would work well and the Chineses would decide 
to make panels and then the price would come way down.  I guess it didn't 
work or they haven't decided to make the panels.

Lynda
--"I'm fascinated by the hard line you're drawing over religion -- It gets
used too much, as an excuse, a fall guy, a weapon, a con.  A lot of people,
maybe most, don't mean it except when it suits them."  Dallas
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From: <DSanner106 AT aol.com>


> I was just helping my daughter with a report on this very subject, The
> conversion in the seventies was nationwide, from my personal  experience
> I have never worked for an employer that was not 100 percent flourescent
> in my 30 years of working in multiple states. Never realized it until I
> read
> this. I take this successful conversion as a very positive sign that we 
> can
> do the same in other areas as well. California has made strides, and is 
> now
> 15 percent hydro of the total state use, but petroleum based sources still
> make up the lions share. Considering California is number 2 on the  energy
> consumption list, 15 percent is actually a huge amount. Washington is 87
> percent
> and in the lead, but most areas of the country will never be able to touch
> these
> numbers for lack of powerful rivers etc. Solar, if it ever comes down in
> price
> is the logical source of choice. I had read a couple years ago that the
> Japanese
> had developed a paint that acted as a solar panel, and you could paint 
> your
> house with it and generate energy all day long. Hopefully that will pan 
> out
> and
> eliminate much of the need for panels.