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To bring it back, a host of companies and aid agencies are using the most plentiful resource on the planet to begin powering one of the biggest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen: Solar power.

Jorge Chapa | Inhabitat^[1]

In the not too distant future, your home, your entire city, your truck (he specializes in powering trucks), government buildings, even a war here and there, will be power by Zero-Amp Tech, Inc.

Peter Sumaruck^[2]

As I’ve said before, peak oil isn’t a problem if the economy it’s powering is shrinking.

Jeffrey Rubin: Tightening Oil Markets Will Bring the Speculators Back^[3]

As I’ve said before, peak oil isn’t a problem if the economy it’s powering is shrinking.

Jeffrey Rubin: Tightening Oil Markets Will Bring the Speculators Back^[4]

Where I do see space-based solar power being useful is in powering assets in space.

California looks to Future Power Sources – NASA Watch^[5]

Ultimately, the role of the solar panel in powering cars might well lie, not on the car itself, but on the garage that houses it.

Wish We Were Here …^[6]

If the wind was a slap, the shockwave was a solid punch, pounding every inch of my body, the pain powering right through the epidermis to the muscle and bone and beyond.

365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day^[7]

It has done yeoman’s service in powering the world’s agricultural machinery to cultivate ever greater expanses of land.

The Industry Everybody Takes for Granted^[8]

WebKit, originally from Konquerer, and currently best-known as powering Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome Web browsers.

CNET News.com^[9]

It looks and plays like a first-person shooter, but is built around the notion of powering up your character by earning experience points, and hunting through dungeons for randomly generated loot.

Slate Magazine^[10]