Stolen Solar Panels Offered on Internet. By Kate Galbraith, NYTimes, September 23, 2008. "Solar power, with its promise of emissions-free renewable energy, boasts a growing number of fans. Some of them, it turns out, are thieves… Police departments in California -- the biggest market for solar power, with more than 33,000 installations -- are seeing a rash of such burglaries, though nobody compiles overall statistics. Investigators do not believe the thieves are acting out of concern for their carbon footprints. Rather, authorities assume that many panels make their way to unwitting homeowners, sometimes via the Internet."
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