This 7 minute podcast with highlights from the pages of 7minutesolar looks at some surprising places where solar power is taking hold. Landfill site, nuclear disaster zones, oil fields, coal mines…and more!

 

Chernobyl to get solar farm as part of plan to rehabilitate disaster zone

Former landfill site to be turned into solar facility with more than 7,800 panels

One of the U.S.’s biggest oil fields just turned to an unexpected power source: Solar

Kentucky coal mine could become a solar farm

World’s largest floating solar farm sits over a former coal mine

China building huge solar farms in the shape of panda