Jerry Brown

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Radio host: Forget high-speed rail. You want to see a California solar highway. What is this? Jerry Brown: What I want to see are photovoltaic cells. Those are the arrays that pick up sunshine and then translate that sunshine into electrical energy. You can put them on your roof. You can put them on a warehouse roof. You can put them on the ground in much larger arrays. And you can also put them along California highways because there’s a lot of vacant and open land there. You can also possibly cover the aqueduct, which ships water from the north to the south. What we need is space to capture the sunlight to provide electricity. There’s enough potential to supply all our electricity needs. Now, it’s not going to happen overnight, but this is a tremendous pathway to hundreds of thousands of jobs, as well as saving on importing energy from other states or other countries and making our environment cleaner because we won’t be burning natural gas or importing coal for fired electricity or even using oil.