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Solar retrofits of publicly owned buildings
$4,000,000.00 - 0 jobs - CDBG Program
60% voted critical - 40% voted not critical - 111 votes cast
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Solar energy is actually quite economically viable - especially in places like Tucson. Photovoltaics are more expensive, and have a much longer dollar per dollar pay off rate. However, there are other benefits - cleaner air, fewer respiratory and health problems, increased national security due to a decreased reliance on foreign oil - that critics almost always don't associate when they say that costs are too high.
When you factor in the economic, health, and national security costs of not going to solar or clean, renewable energy then you will see that going solar - especially in Tucson - is a no-brainer.
Solar thermal technology, however, is so economically viable that all buildings should switch to it.
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