
National security and sustainability certainly make for an unlikely overlap of interests.
“Distributed generation with solar looks better and better to me all the time.” -James Woolsey, former director of the CIA.
What is a man with Woolsey’s credentials doing issuing a powerful endorsement of home solar panels? National security and sustainability, at face value, certainly make for an unlikely overlap of interests.
In his talk—delivered to a crowd of several hundred people at the Johns Hopkins Institute for International Studies—Woolsey advocated distributed solar energy in the form of solar panels on businesses and homes as one viable solution to the security challenges faced by America’s electricity grid.
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