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08-13-2009, 03:59 PM
Editor's Note: Scientific American 's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels and taking other steps to save energy in 60-Second Solar . Read his introduction here and see all posts here .
At the rate things are going, the sun is going to become a red giant and engulf the inner planets before we ever get our solar panels. It took us months to navigate the government and utility bureaucracies , we’re now waiting for the installers to work through their backlog, and we're worried about the installation glitches that other solar bloggers have reported. What I wouldn’t have given for a power purchase agreement (PPA), whereby an outside company navigates the bureaucracy and installs the panels for you, in return for collecting a share of the public subsidies .
[More] (http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=power-purchase-agreements-aka-let-s-2009-08-03)
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[More] (http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=power-purchase-agreements-aka-let-s-2009-08-03)
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