Inexpensive Mass Market Solar Power Nears

News from San Jose indicates that most homeowners will be able go the route of being self-powered soon through the use of easy to install inexpensive solar panels that are more than competitive on a cost basis with coal burning electricity generation. That would mean a cost of 5 cents or less per kilowatt hour and without the harmful long term ramifications that fossil fuel burning power plants bear society with. There have been significant improvements and technological breakthroughs in recent years with all kinds of alternative clean power sources, and solar, along with wind, offer the greatest promise. It will be up to consumers to take advantage of these innovative options, as most governments are deeply in bed with the monolithic usually monopolistic power companies of today that are embedded in a mindset of yesteryear and technology of power that is creating more harm than good long term.
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/environment/2008-04-28-solar-power-sunrgi_N.htm
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