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Rate Crimes
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Solar energy is increasingly recognized as being critically important to the future of our technological society and of our culture. The conversation at Rate Crimes exists to explain and to explore why solar energy is important to humanity; why the need for its rapid adoption is urgent; why the American Desert Southwest is central to achieving a rapid and widespread adoption; why the state of Arizona is particularly central to this goal; how a sustainable solar energy future has been, and continues to be delayed; and to expose one of the greatest, and heretofore unrecognized crimes of our time.
- Added on: Jun 12th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Rate Crimes
- Listed in: Energy Economics
- Tags: energy sustainable green solar economics renewable
Recent Posts
Design for Solar Investment: Fitting the Inverter
The engineers that deliver energy solutions to homeowners and small businesses labor under demands much different from those experienced by the engineering teams that design large, commercial solar energy systems. For smaller systems, time, money, an...
Local Solutions Globally Applied
A briefing on electricity appeared in the September/October issue of MIT’s Technology Review magazine. The briefing begins with a section titled, “Can Renewables Become More than a Sideshow?” The introduction concludes with some commendable exh...
Big Squeeze
A special, existential absurdity accompanies the state of being a citizen of Arizona. The great, swelling, air-conditioned cities of the Southwest each attracts denizens with particular promises. The tag lines are expressive, “What happens in Vegas...
Solar-Powered Coal
Arizona’s Green Divide has a less apparent extraction of wealth from captive electric utility ratepayers and taxpayers.These unsuspecting payers are funding the installation of solar electric systems on their more fortunate neighbors’ houses; th...
Solar Phunny
The City of Phoenix, Arizona Public Service, SolarCity, and the National Bank of Arizona are collaborating to bring on-site solar electricity to a few of the city’s less affluent homeowners. The Solar Phoenix program will allow 1,000 Phoenix homeo...
Arizona\'s Green Divide
There is a deep chasm in the Grand Canyon State. It is a chasm deepening so quickly as to shame the timeless workings of geology.The Arizona Corporation Commission’s Renewable Energy Standards and Tariff (REST) rules are an inherently flawed attem...
