They frequently depend on venture-capital funds which are dwarfed by the cost of even a single utility-scale power plant.

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And now, for the very first time, a large-scale solar power plant -- the largest of its kind in the entire nation -- will deliver electricity produced by the sun to the citizens of the Sunshine State.

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An interview published last year in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists detailed how at age 88, he was working on a new approach to photovoltaic thin-film production that he said would allow factories to make enough solar panels in a year to produce at least one gigawatt of electricity annually roughly the scale of a nuclear power plant at the price of coal.

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The government admitted that it is likely to raise the JCO Co. uranium-processing plant accident rating on an international scale to the same as that given the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear-power plant catastrophe.

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Part of the rationale for big government-sponsored rebates on what is an otherwise uneconomic source of power is the strategic benefit of distributing small-scale power generation across the landscape rather than focusing it in a hulking coal or nuclear plant.

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