Professor Fthenakis Promotes Solar Power
04/09/2008
Vasilis Fthenakis of the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering and founder and director of Columbia’s Center for Life Cycle Analysis (CLCA), is a leading proponent of solar energy. “The solar electric technologies are ready,” he says, “to provide 69% of the country’s electricity and 35% of its total energy needs by 2050.” His plan calls for covering huge tracts of land in the southwest deserts with photovoltaic and concentrating solar power systems that would send direct current (DC) electricity to all parts of the country through a new high-voltage power transmission system.
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