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(going solar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing like a bit of good news* to make us feel that the fight against fossil-fuel gangsters is <em>worth<\/em> continuing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;We\u2019re actually winning the fight against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/section\/climate-change?lc=int_mb_1001\">climate change<\/a>, but most people don\u2019t know it yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;Within eighteen months . . . solar will be able to compete in three-quarters of the world\u2019s electricity markets without subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/176475\/will-solar-save-planet\">Will Solar Save the Planet? | The Nation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>*Been so long since I&#8217;ve seen any, I&#8217;ve forgotten wot it look like.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing like a bit of good news* to make us feel that the fight against fossil-fuel gangsters is worth continuing&#8230; &#8220;We\u2019re actually winning the fight against climate change, but most people don\u2019t know it yet.&#8221; And this: &#8220;Within eighteen months . . . solar will be able to compete in three-quarters of the world\u2019s electricity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[196],"tags":[219,58919],"class_list":["post-6954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecoculture","tag-energy","tag-solar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-1Oa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1135,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/10\/15\/solar-motion-pictures\/","url_meta":{"origin":6954,"position":0},"title":"solar motion pictures","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"October 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W95qAOB32Gs&hl=en&fs=1& This is from Gary Palmer's surreally beautiful Sun in Motion solar video page. 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