Country’s largest thin-film solar house
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It is believed to be the largest residential installation of thin-film solar cells in the country: a rooftop system that should generate enough electricity to power a 6,000-square-foot Chatsworth house with six refrigerators, five TVs and a swimming pool. (Can you hear the environmentalists cheering and screaming at the same time?)
Times staff writer Susan Carpenter explains the advantages and drawbacks of thin-film solar and how this particular project plays out.
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