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Topic: solar panels

Engineer working on checking equipment in solar power plant with galaxies in the background (Getty Images/Pramote Polyamate)

Coming soon: Solar panel space farms

Exterior view of a Walmart store (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress via Getty Images)

Rooftop solar for superstores

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist

(Shutterstock)

The solar e-waste glut is coming

Maddie Stone - Grist

Solar panels Photovoltaic systems - aerial view

The solar market isn't all sunshine

Eli Wolfe - FairWarning

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Kelly Placke of Star Bright Farms in Cuba City, Wisconsin. (David Nevala)

A sunny future

Lisa Held - Civil Eats

PlanetSolar press officer Julia Tames walks across the deck of the MS Turanor PlanetSolar, the world's largest solar-powered boat, moored at Zea Harbor, in Athens, on Tuesday Aug. 5, 2014. The 35-meter (115-foot) vessel is in Greece to take part in a Swiss-Greek underwater archaeology project to survey the seabed off a major prehistoric site, in hope of finding traces of what could be one of the earliest villages in Europe. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) (AP)

No land, no problem

Maria Gallucci - Grist

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Republicans are buying rooftop solar

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist

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Is it okay to buy used solar panels?

Nathanael Johnson - Grist

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Tomatoes growing under solar panels at the University of Massachusetts. (All photos courtesy of Hyperion Systems.) (Courtesy of Hyperion Systems)

Solar Panels on farms could be a win-win

Sarah Shemkus - Civil Eats

((AP Photo/David Goldman))

State of US solar industry

Joshua D. Rhodes - The Conversation

(AP/Reed Saxon)

U.S. starting to tax solar panel imports

Nathanael Johnson - Grist

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Save jobs with solar power

Edward Barbier, Terry Iverson - The Conversation

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Elon Musk (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Here comes the sun

(Reuters/Grace Liang)

Matthew Kahn - The Conversation

(Screenshot, Google)

Google goes solar

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The explosive rise of solar

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(Steve Allen/Shutterstock)

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(U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon/Flickr)

Steve Baer's "Zomework": High-efficiency, passive, solar-heated homes in New Mexico. (Boyd Norton, U.S. National Archives)

(Titan Aerospace)

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