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Whatever Happened to Low-Cost Solar Power?

"The promise of Stan Ovshinsky’s low-cost 'solar laminate' technology has been betrayed by corporate greed and the bottom-line mentality of simply doing business as usual," writes Jim Beacon, Editor of TheGreenerHome.com. 

"Sadly, the company Stan Ovshinsky founded to manufacture his solar revolution now appears to have decided that just because they can make solar panels faster — at less than half the cost of anyone else — that is no reason why they should pass those cost savings on to the rest of the world."

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No Joke: Continental Airlines flies a Boeing 737 partly powered by algae and weed biofuel

"One of the greatest green challenges for the future is to figure out how to power those 'heavy lift' high-horsepower vehicles for which electric motors are not going to be a viable option," writes Jim Beacon, editor of TheGreenerHome.com.

"A jet airplane is the most obvious example of something that has always looked like it would require high-octane hydrocarbon fuel made from crude oil.

"Zepplins look cool... but let's face it: Our world will not be replacing its jet airliners with blimps any time soon.

"But necessity is the mother of invention and it now looks like that with enough incentives from world governments -- and enough commitment from corporate board rooms --  it will be possible create sustainable jet aircraft flying on bio-fuels made from plants we can grow."

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