As the nation ponders perhaps the most important question of the 21st century — how to provide for our energy needs as fossil fuels become scarce — Dr. Peter Glaser is confident that the newly earned respectability for his once “unthinkable” plan will continue to grow. “The one thing I’m quite convinced of,” Glaser says, raising his voice to make a point for the first time in our conversation, “is that in 50 years solar energy will be the most important energy source. It better be, because we don’t have that many options.”
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- Local heroes
Alongside the Feelies, R.E.M., and the Replacements, Mark Mulcahy’s Miracle Legion was one of the most promising of the indie bands of the mid-’80s.
- State’s renewable energy effort goes into neutral
When it comes to advancing the cause of solar energy in Rhode Island, nothing is ever easy, or so it seems.
- Idiot wind
Last spring, after the state Legislature rejected a bill that could have resulted in a wind farm being constructed on two undeveloped mountains in Redington Township, a lot of people in western Maine, figuring the controversial project was finally dead, expressed their joy by doing the chicken dance in the streets.
- Wind-farm debate
Would opponents of the proposed Cape Wind offshore energy parkbe more amenable to the idea if the project were prettier?
- Windshift
Harley Lee and I are not friends. The only time we’ve met was a couple of years ago in a Carrabassett Valley bar, where I told him the world would be a better place if somebody poisoned his drink.
- Heat of the moment
Because of the high cost of heating oil, I'm considering installing an alternative energy source in my house. I've examined the possibilities, and it looks as if my best bet is a home nuclear-power plant.
- Here comes the sun
It's All Right
- Greased lightning
Oil has been discovered in a Brighton backyard.
- Faltering steps forward
As in many other sectors, the green world in 2009 was marked as much by bluster as by tangible positive action.
- Solar power co-op surfaces in Bath
The midcoast may soon be home to the state’s first solar power co-op.
- Break like the wind
I felt like a voyeur. There was Fred Hardy of New Sharon crawling into bed with — gawd, I can’t look! — Al Gore.
- Blown away
I’m sorry to inform you that there is an institution in Maine that repeatedly makes promises to the public, but rarely fulfills them.
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