Here’s an excellent AFP film clip and article from a couple weeks ago that I think deserves a wider audience.
Gazans turn to solar power as fuel crisis bites (via AFP)
On the roof of Gaza City’s children’s hospital, a pristine row of solar panels gleams in the sunlight, an out-of-place symbol of modern, clean energy in the impoverished Strip. As the coastal Palestinian territory lives through the worst fuel shortage…
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Unfortunately, I’m pessimistic enough to predict that Israel would figure out to take even that away from the Palestinians.
it’s rare to see any home in Israel without solar panels. It’s very common. Like Gaza, we have lots of sun, but not much else.