Many energy experts feel solar technology is finally poised for global growth after two decades of false starts.

This was the first solar technology to have received the award.

The amount of electricity-generated using solar technologies is raised 700-fold.

A slow but steady resurgence of solar technology has taken place in the last two decades.

Teach public about the state of wind & solar technology.

We can help, of course, by selling them the necessary solar technology if they don't want to re-invent it.

Since the 1970s, the federal government and industry has encouraged the development of solar technologies for these communities.

Even though the breakthrough is still several years away, new solar technologies are already beginning to move out of the laboratory and into commercial application.

"Sooner or later, they will have to get better," he said of emerging solar technologies.

But how many Western enviros are willing to live at the limits of current solar technology?