Reynolds Wolf

(THE WEATHER CHANNEL) - The International Energy Agency says the renewable energy revolution is happening much faster than expected even a year ago, with solar power is leading the way. But what happens to all those solar panels when they reach their end of life? A company in West Texas is in the business of refurbishing them. Suvi Sharma's company takes old solar panels and recycles the good parts into new solar panels.

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In the Summer of 1974, a 31-year-old man named Bill Wolf bought this modest home in San Ramon, California. The pen felt heavy in the realtor’s office, and the closing documents roared up from the signing table, a gnashing of words pouncing with a Himalayan-sized sum: THIRTY-TWO-THOUSAND DOLLARS. Bill couldn’t afford it. But he was a dreamer—and California had beckoned—it’s opportunities whispered to him from across the continent. And he listened carefully.