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Created: Jun 26, 2009
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Topic: What to do with Detroit's remnants?
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Cities like Detroit, with their surplus of trained labor, manufacturing infrastructure, and high unemployment rates, are a problem that weighs heavily upon the economy and psyche of our nation. The problem really is, what to do with tll these resources standing idle and rusting away?
Solar thermal company Sterling Energy Systems (SES) is providing us with a clear and present solution to that problem - making the world most efficient solar systems (for electric, anyway).
SES is using old automobile maufactuing equipment and workers to produce highly efficient solar thermal electricity generators, operating above 30 efficiency (most flat panels, by compare, get somewhere in the high 'teens. See the post on Treehugger here. What do you think of this? I feel as though there's a lot of potential in all those skilled metalworkers, designers, mechanics, engineers, production managers and manufacturing plants - the US can't afford to let the global renewables market go overseas, and we can't afford to let our skilled laborers languish jobless while there's goo work to be done.
What do you think? Is this the right solution?