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Cheap solar power poised to undercut oil and gas by half
0 Comments Published February 17th, 2007 in Solar NewsWithin five years, solar power will be cheap enough to compete with carbon-generated electricity, even in Britain, Scandinavia or upper Siberia. In a decade, the cost may have fallen so dramatically that solar cells could undercut oil, gas, coal and nuclear power by up to half. Technology is leaping ahead of a stale political debate [...]
Here is a bright little village in Andhra Pradesh that is all solar and smoke-free — the first of its kind in the country.
Bysanivaripalle, 125 km northwest of Tirupati, has 36 families. Their main means of livelihood is sericulture. The eco-conscious residents of the electrified village went in for the first biogas plant in the [...]
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