Word: solarization
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...time later in Freeland, Mich., a little town near the spot where the thumb of the Michigan mitten meets the palm. The state's economy is the weakest in the country, and McCain was there to visit one of the few bright spots, a Dow Corning plant devoted to solar-power technology...
...Even the remotest areas of the country without electricity are linked to the system by solar-powered mobile phones,” he said...
...finished product is fully solar powered and emits no carbon dioxide. Half of the car’s energy is produced by solar panels on an attached trailer and is stored in two batteries. The car can go 55 mph for 200 miles on this alone...
...Palmer] definitely has a lot of vision,” said Environmental Action Committee co-chair Karen A. McKinnon ’10. “[He is] getting people and investors who have never thought about pollution and climate change excited about solar cars...
...plug-in cars could also help the development of renewable power, all the more important since a proliferation of electric cars would alter the national pattern of carbon emissions - the utility sector would take on the emissions that once belonged oil-based transport. While a power grid fueled by solar or wind would be clean, one of its key drawbacks is that it would also be intermittent - if the sun were shaded or the wind failed to blow, we wouldn't have power. Likewise, if solar or wind produced more power than the grid could use, that excess power might...