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Solar panels are attached roofs on homes in the Carmel Valley area in August 2025 in San Diego.
Solar panels are attached roofs on homes in the Carmel Valley area in August 2025 in San Diego.
We live in an age of both scientific miracles and superstition about science, increasing more or less in tandem. One year we’re creating novel vaccines that arrest a global pandemic, and four years later we’ve got measles outbreaks because people believe nonsense about vaccines, disseminated by the nation’s chief health official.
Solar power is another example. Here is a technology that, rather than digging up fossils and burning them to unleash solar energy collected millions of years ago, miraculously sucks that energy directly out of the sky. Unlike those fossil fuels, it’s harmless, limitless and on balance doesn’t generate greenhouse gases that heat up the planet.
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