Scheduled to be opened in 2012, France is building the world’s largest solar plant on a 1,025 acre abandoned NATO site in Toul-Rosieres, near the eastern city of Metz. It is reported that the site will produce enough power for a town of 62,000 people or 143 megawatts.
Imagine this! The French plant will be over [...]
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The University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 has teamed up with an Arizona firm called Solarmax to test a new way to mount solar panels so they can be deployed over mine tailings and landfills. Ordinarily landfills and abandoned mines are left as wasted earth space, often more of a hazard than any potential benefit. The University [...]
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