If entrepreneurs can come up with cheap solar technology, say, or develop drugs to cure cancer, they will deserve all the money they can get.

比如说，如果企业家运用廉价的太阳能源科技得宜，开发新药治疗癌症，他们就可以实至名归地赚钱。

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Last week, France announced that the country will pave 621 miles of road with solar panels over the next five years, with the goal of providing cheap, renewable energy to five million people.

上周，法国宣布将在未来5年内铺设一条长达621英里的太阳能公路，以期为500万民众提供便宜的可再生的能源。

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And it would bring the day closer when solar electricity is as cheap as that generated from coal.

这项新技术会使太阳能发电与煤炭发电一样便宜的那一天早些到来。

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"Lots and lots of companies from overseas, especially from China, selling very cheap products, that users can have in order to recharge their cell phones or small devices, that run on solar energy or wind energy."

VOA: special.2011.01.10

But what will cheap solar do to lower emissions in the important transportation sector?

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Both acts would, of course, slow progress and delay the arrival of cheap solar power and electric cars.

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Like ARPA-E, EERE is now cooperatively negotiating research milestones into its funding opportunities with its National Lab, industry, and University research partners so that its investments are geared toward technology outcomes (e.g. cheap solar panels, high performance vehicle batteries, etc.).

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