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Backs New Solar Power Initiative BRATTLEBORO -- An idea to put
10 million solar panels on 10 million buildings in the United
States is a good start, said an advocate for the replacement of
fossil fuels and nuclear power with renewable energy sources
such as wind and solar. "It's a brilliant and visionary idea to
put solar energy into the middle of the discussion on energy,"
said Arjun Makhijani, the president of the Institute of Energy
and Environmental Research. "A goal like that is very important
because it will mean the solar manufacturing industry will have
certainty that there will be a demand at the other end.
Makhijani was responding to a proposal put forth by Sen. Bernard
Sanders, I-VT, that would encourage the installation of 10
million rooftop solar units on homes and businesses over the
course of 10 years. At one kilowatt-hour a unit, that could
supply up to 10,000 megawatts of energy, or approximately 13
nuclear reactors the size of th