A gigantic solar farm, biggest of its kind in the world, opened last
week in the California desert. Three-hundred and fifty thousand huge
mirrors reflecting sunlight on 40-story towers — to 1,000 degrees
Fahrenheit up there — making steam, turning turbines, generating clean
electricity. And we not build another one like it. Solar and other
renewable energies are up against an era of cheap, fracked natural gas.
Environmentalists say cut back fossil fuel consumption, or climate
change will croak us. The market’s saying here’s cheap gas. This hour On
Point: solar and renewable energy in the age of fracking. / Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/02/19/solar-energy-renewable-energy-fracking
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