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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (12989)	1/18/2012 11:03:58 AM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Respond to of 14956

The (Solar) Light at the End of the Tunnel A consultant for the Defense Department reports that introducing solar installations on nine military bases in the Mojave and Colorado Desert could generate 7,000 megawatts of power. Depending on which yardstick you prefer, that amounts to the output of seven average nuclear plants or six large coal-fired plants. It would also amount to 25 percent of the renewable energy that California will require its utilities to produce by 2015, according to the 13 authors of the report, prepared by the consultancy ICF International.