A recent Discover Magazine article focused on a small solar generator, which mounts on your roof. Rather than converting sunlight into electricity, it focuses sunlight onto a small steam engine to create heat. At this time it can compete directly with local utilities as far as cost per watt.
Within a year it should be on the market, and may very well compete with oil.
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Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha
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