Riding a Solar Wave, Post-Sandy

Some surfers are car­ry­ing more than their boards to the Rock­aways – they’re bring­ing solar power to help strengthen the storm-battered penin­sula against the sea.

“The first line of defense for the city is Rock­away Beach,” said Wal­ter Meyer of Power Rock­aways Resilience, a non­profit group that formed after Sandy to install solar pan­els for free in the Queens community.

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