Buckinghamshire has selected sites that are "low-risk" and has added solar road studs, extra signs and road markings.

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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) agreed to purchase all of the electricity generated by the K Road Moapa Solar plant, a 250-megawatt project slated to be built on the Moapa River Paiute Reservation, located northeast of Las Vegas.

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But those who are riding solar bandwagons on a sunny blue sky road to energy independence should beware.

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Mr. MICHAEL CORDELL: So you can have a roadside reader simply powered using a solar panel sitting by the side of the road just collecting data, and it then transmits it back to the central system.

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And as for Japan, he cautions that the country is likely to reduce solar spending in the face of new needs for road and infrastructure repair and other issues created by the quake and tsunami.

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But a commercially viable solar-powered car, experts say, is still very far down the road.

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After those efforts failed, Tessera sold the project to a K Road Power, a New York firm, which decided to switch to solar panels.

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Foreigners who visited Jiuquan on August 1st to view a total solar eclipse from a site nearby had to register with the police to use the road.

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