Researchers Aim To Shed More Light on Solar's Potential

摘要

From foggy San Francisco to the Nevada desert, and to Australia's arid outback, solar-power researchers are looking at new sites and new technologies to boost emissions-free approaches to electricity generation: In an unlikely bid to make a notoriously un-sunny city the nation's largest municipal generator of solar power, San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission is conducting a study to determine the best neighborhoods for photocell installations. Project managers are placing a number of rooftop solar-energy monitors that are equipped with transmitters, allowing researchers to gather data and compile it into a centralized "fog map."