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PRESORTED STANDARD US POSTAGE PAID Desert Hot Springs, CA
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Friday, August 6, 2021 Vol. 24 No. 61
Congrats IMMAF Champs! From The left Abby Alvarez - gold - San Diego Lexi Hazelton - bronze - Sacramento Irann Orozco - Bronze - DHS Hanna Wagstaff - gold - DHS By Desert Star Staff Despite the obstacles posed by the pandemic and in the shadows of the Olympics, “Three-hundredand-seventy 12 to 17-yearolds competed successfully
in the IMMAF’s second Youth World Championships. Fighters from Albania, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Israel,
Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States competed. Successfully representing the USA and captivating
Metals for their country was a strong band of gifted, intense fighting girls from California, including our own Desert Hot Springs enthusiastic good-looking Mixed Martial Arts celebrities
“Irann Orozco; Andrea Frisque; Hannah Wagstaff; Allison Enos.” And from San Diego Abby Alvarez and from Sacramento, Lexi Hazelton.
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California Is Producing the Most Solar Energy in the U.S.
By Desert Star Staff In the first few months of his administration, one of President Joe Biden’s top policy priorities has been addressing the threat of climate change. Biden has stated a goal of reaching 100% pollution-free electricity by 2035, which means dramatically scaling up renewable energy production in the U.S. One of the potential beneficiaries of this focus is the solar power industry, seeing rapid growth as the costs associated with solar decline. For many years, solar power was too expensive to be adopted at scale as a significant source of energy production, but this has changed in recent years. One of the biggest reasons
for the decline in costs has been technological innovation. For example, solar technology has become more reliable and more efficient over time, lowering the cost of generating energy. These factors reached an inflection point in the mid2000s, and solar production in the U.S. has been growing exponentially ever since. In 2006, solar generated around 507,000 megawatt-hours of energy and represented .01% of U.S. energy generated by the electric power industry. By 2019, solar thermal and photovoltaic accounted for 71,936,822 megawatthours—around 140 times more than in 2006—representing small part of the U.S.’s overall 1.74% of the total. energy mix but will become Solar is still a relatively an increasingly significant
source as solar production continues to accelerate—mainly if the Biden Administration’s
climate policies and clean Continues on Page 3
