Word: solarized
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Although he emphasized the environmental advantages of solar electricity, Ehrenreich said that its cost would have to go down by about 20 times to be competitive with coal-generated electricity in the year...
Bruce Chalmers, retired Professor of Metallurgy and a photovoltaic researcher, said yesterday that some experts in the field believe that economic solar electric technologies are "within reach" and might be available...
Chalmers also said that growth of the solar contribution to electricity generation beyond the one per cent figure cited by the Ehrenreich study might be possible if the government provided a guaranteed market at a guaranteed price to the solar industry...
Chalmers did say that Ehrenreich's panel "may well be right" about how much energy solar electricity will actually contribute in the year 2000, but added that the government guarantees he suggested could result in much greater contribution...
Chalmers, Ehrenreich, William A. Shurcliff, honorary research associate in the physics department, and Henry Kendall, MIT professor of physics and a founder of the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists all agreed yesterday that non-electric solar technologies such as direct heating and cooling would make more significant contributions to energy production than solar cells before the year...