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By Mark Shwartz Most solar cells today are made with refined silicon that turns sunlight into clean electricity. Unfortunately, the process of refining silicon is far from clean, requiring vast amounts of energy from carbon-emitting power plants.

By Kate Gibson A public-sector, energy-focused internship program at Stanford University has been renamed in honor of one of the most widely admired American public servants over the past half-century: former Secretary of State George P. Shultz.