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Workers lay piping at BrightSource’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System on 3,600 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California. (JOSIE LEPE/San Jose Mercury News)

Solar gold rush in Mojave Desert

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 11:34pm

MOJAVE DESERT, Calif. — The Mojave Desert, which spans an area larger than West Virginia, is becoming speckled with gigantic solar power plants that are creating hundreds of construction jobs and, when complete, will generate electricity for millions of homes.

Business, Energy, Alternative Energy, Endangered Species, Mojave Desert, Plants, Solar energy, Solar plant, Utilities, Wildlife     Read more     Comments

Military aggressively investing in clean technology

Last updated Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 8:11pm

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Department of Defense — eager to reduce its dependence on oil in the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq and keen to become energy-efficient at home — is aggressively investing in clean technology, from advanced biofuels to electric vehicles, solar-powered batteries and blankets for soldiers in the field and bases that generate their own electricity.

Business, Afghanistan, Army, Biofuel, Costa Brava, Economy, Energy efficiency, Gasoline, HAFB, Hill Air Force Base, Iraq war, Navy, Oil, Oil industry, Solar energy, Technology, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Military     Read more     Comments
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