Now it is often 10 times that. I worked on photovoltaic cells and panels at Northrop Corporation years ago, and have followed the thin film technology carefully. You may note all the call boxes along our roads are solar powered, as are some of the flashing warning lights at intersections. It has been decades since California has done anything to help the load on power from the influx of new residents to our wonderful state. For too many years, SCE and the other utility companies have given in to the whims of the environmental folk, and not kept up with energy supply for the residents of California.
Atomic energy is used all over the world.
The United States government sends our knowledge to other countries, but does not look at the problems we have here. It is time to look to the 21st century and not pre-1950. Our future depends on finding alternative energy sources that really work, mostly because those that were used in the past are no longer viable in today s world. Solar power, for instance, may have its drawbacks, but it doesn t pollute, and as technology advances, even those faults that something like solar power has will eventually be fixed. We ve been through these fake energy crisis before.