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Global solar photovoltaic industry is likely now a net energy producer
2013-04-09 23:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The rapid growth of the solar power industry over the past decade may have exacerbated the global warming situation it was meant to soothe, simply because most of the energy used to manufacture the millions of solar panels came from burning fossil fuels. That irony, according to Stanford University researchers, is coming to an end. For the first time since the boom started, the electricity generated by all of the world's installed solar photovoltaic (PV) panels last year probably surpassed the...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical