Environmental California encourages californians to go solar. Solar power has tripled in the past 2 years, and the price of solar has nearly dropped 50%. The rapid growth of solar use is worrying some of the "dirty energy" companies. Although solar may disrupt the dirty energy companies it has a major benefit for America. Arizona, California, and Hawaii are in the top ten states that used solar power, but don't let that fool you. Not only Sunshine states use the power of solar. New Jersey, Massachusetts, Colorado and Delaware also topped the list. These 10 states with only 26% of the population used 87% of the nation's solar power. There is a push for the governor of California, Jerry Brown, to make commitments of progressing the use of solar power. Gaining 10% of use of solar by 2030 is equivalent to taking 59 million cars off the road. Environmental California plans to continue to promote the benefits of solar power and push towards a cleaner environment.
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The California Oroville Dam spillway was overflowing and the surrounding towns had to be evacuated. 188,000 residents were evacuated due to the menacing floodwaters. The dam was built in the 1960's when the temperatures were cooler and less water filled the rivers/dams. A massive crater was created in the dam due to high pressure water running down the spillway. They ended up using the paved emergency spillway in order to avoid letting the crater get bigger. There was erosion on the side of the emergency spillway creating costly problems for the dam. This resulted in using the spillway (with the crater) and just letting the dam release the water down to the safe limit line. To avoid other incidents like this happening other areas should update their scientific data to avoid these crises.
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