Solar Power Outside the Sunbelt

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PV power is clean, efficient, and has no moving parts.
PV power is clean, efficient, and has no moving parts.
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After reading by gas lamps and candles for 50 years, hut visitors are finally able to turn on the lights
After reading by gas lamps and candles for 50 years, hut visitors are finally able to turn on the lights
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Originally mounted flush with the roof, the PV panels are now being retrofitted and mounted on poles to take advantage of the higher summer sun.
Originally mounted flush with the roof, the PV panels are now being retrofitted and mounted on poles to take advantage of the higher summer sun.

Think you have to live in New Mexico to get enough sun to
run all your lights and appliances with photovoltaic
panels? Maybe you live in Minnesota or Maine and can’t see
the sun from November to March. Or in British Columbia or
Alaska, where surely temperatures are too frigid to

  • Published on Apr 1, 1999
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