TAKEPLACE: WEST VIRGINIA GETS A CLEAN LIFT

Thursday, February 3, 2011

WEST VIRGINIA GETS A CLEAN LIFT

At the heart of philosophical debate of how we can best mobilize industry to deal with climate change lies one single dirty fuel source: coal. It provides the energy that powers the most massive economies on the planet, and contributes more than any other industrial source to the climate's warming. On a micro level, it also provides a lot of folks with their livelihoods. Abolishing the stuff presents a conundrum indeed. So it's nice to see even small progress being made that addresses both issues; and not just symbolically. Mountain View Solar & Wind just installed the largest renewable energy project in West Virginia's Southern Coalfields -- it's an 11 kW rooftop solar panel system, and unemployed coal miners worked to set it up. TreeHugger

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