window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: A surge in investment in solar power is bringing down costs of the alternative energy source, but affordability problems still dog hopes for the 1.6 billion people worldwide without electricity. The sun supplies only a tiny fraction — less than one tenth of 1 percent — of mankind’s energy needs. But its supporters believe a solar era may be dawning, boosted by western funding to combat oil "addiction" and climate change. Governments from Japan to Germany and the …
Solar energy boom may help world’s poorest
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: A surge in investment in solar power is bringing down costs of the alternative energy source, but affordability problems still dog hopes for the 1.6 billion people worldwide without electricity. The sun supplies only a tiny fraction — less than one tenth of 1 percent — of mankind’s energy needs. But its supporters believe a solar era may be dawning, boosted by western funding to combat oil "addiction" and climate change. Governments from Japan to Germany and the …
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