While TREC's plan is nowhere near becoming a reality, it seems inevitable that, in one form or another, someone will try to capitalize on the vast solar energy resources available in the sun-soaked countries of the Sun Belt.

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Led by Ministry of Energy and Water Resources director general Shaul Tzemach, the Tzemach Committee announced that they would now allocate about 84 percent of available natural gas for export use, with the assurance that additional reserves be found that would ensure domestic demand is first met.

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And long-term human settlement will follow at some point, mainly to develop mineral and energy resources available on the Moon, but also to emplace protective systems aimed at avoiding large asteroid impacts of the type we were all recently made aware with that grazing meteor strike in Chelyabinsk and the simultaneous near-miss by big-rock DA14.

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