Where some see rusting factories, Government sees a source of solar energy

  • 03/12/1998

The U.S. Energy Department has a new idea for what to do with derelict, polluted urban industrial properties that no one wants to pay to clean up: cover them with solar panels. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson will unveil the first step in a project to use solar panels at polluted sites to make much-needed electricity without disturbing buried contaminants in Chicago.