In Colorado coal towns, the next generation is turning to solar
(WorldNews Environment)

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At a picnic table in a dry grass field, a group of elementary school students watched as high school senior Xavier Baty, a broad-shouldered 18-year-old in a camouflage ball cap and scuffed work boots, attached a hand-sized solar panel cell to a small motor connected to a fan. He held the panel to face the setting Colorado sun, adjusting its angle to vary the fan speed. `Want to hear a secret?` he asked the kids around him. `This is the only science class I ever got an ‘A’ in.` As he readily acknowledges, Baty hasn´t been the most enthusiastic science student...