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time.com - 12/22/2008

Mapping Renewable Energy, Rooftop by Rooftop

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Time Magazine: The sun shines on everyone -- but not in equal measure. That reality has long slowed the spread of solar power. Depending on where you live in the country -- or even where you live in your city -- the same array of photovoltaic solar panels can produce enough electricity to power ...

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Peak Oil News:  Mapping Renewable Energy, Rooftop by Rooftop

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Ecoearth.info Blog:  Solar Power May Be Eco-Friendly. But Some in California Call It a Blight

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Mapping Renewable Energy, Rooftop by Rooftop
Peak Oil News — ... Internet solar maps of 25 American cities, using Google Earth technology to chart the precise solar potential of neighborhoods, literally rooftop by rooftop. The company has just finished mapping all of San Francisco, allowing residents to enter their address and take the solar measure of their own home. "People in San Francisco think we don't have any solar potential,' says Gavin Newsom, the city's deep-green mayor. "But the map shows we have a lot more sun than you'd believe." TIME

Daily Sprout
Earth2Tech — ... Neighborhood Solar Mapping with Google Earth: Engineering company CH2M Hill is partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy to create online solar maps of 25 cities in the U.S., using Google Earth to map solar energy potential rooftop by rooftop. — Time ...

Companies Map Renewable Energy Potential
Environmental Leader — December 23, 2008 Companies Map Renewable Energy Potential san_francisco.jpg The sun shines everywhere, but not equally. The same array of photovoltaic solar panels can produce enough power for a home, or not even enough to reduce utility bills. But now that may all change, Time reports . The engineering company CH2M Hill is now working with the Department of Energy to provide Internet solar maps of 25 American cities. The company ...

Solar Power May Be Eco-Friendly. But Some in California Call It a Blight
Ecoearth.info Blog — ... such as the San Joaquin kit fox. He is also concerned about the effect on dwindling water supplies as well as the more intangible treasures of the area: unimpeded views, the stark silence, the rustic agricultural beauty, the huge wilderness area called the Carrizo Plain National Monument just down valley - that is, just about everything that made him buy the property 10 years ago. ( Read a story on mapping the best solar energy sites in the U.S. ) Robin Bell, a museum exhibit ...