Wind already supplies about 15 percent of Texas’s electricity, and now developers are about to quadruple the state’s solar capacity, adding enough panels by 2022 to light up all of Dallas. But they won’t just power homes. Solar developers are responding to demand from oil and gas drillers, whose booming operations are gobbling up electricity and pushing prices spiking above $1,000 a megawatt-hour.
Giving a Second Life to Mesquite Trees
Tumacacori Mesquite Sawmill in Tumacacori-Carmen, Arizona gives mesquite trees a second life. Art and...
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