I want to say that I don't feel solar panels are a bad option. They work well within their limitations.but the real fix is our power consumption.you realistically are probably going to have to make do with less energy. A lot less.but I will add that on a level playing field solar and wind would never enter the game if their dad wasn't coaching the team. Albeit solar has its niche advantage , its not nearly what its p
Cracked :up to be. Its one of those shell games you want to believe but , it just isn't there. Its like...well , how many of y'all remember voyager....a small satellite we sent to take pictures of mars in the late 70 s . Well it happened to do its job( although it was a low budget project at the time) , a little too well.it was expected to be destroyed in the asteroid belt , but it wasn't.as it flew out , we spent more money building bigger and bigger antennae to be able to receive images as time went on.we got pictures from it as it passed one planet after another.....point is , its traveling through space at 40000 miles an hour or so. It took it about 35 years to leave our solar system at that speed...wow ...and the next event it will intersept in space is in just 2600 years. Yet every kid in school is believing we are just about to cross the star trek threshold and travel to other galaxies. ....not in the next 2000 years. We are not even close. Heck they didn't even see the asteroid that blew up over Russia coming. Technology is not where they lead you to believe. But as long as they can convince you that we are right on the threshold, you'll keep pumping money into it. Cha- ching ....money in the bank if I were dishonest. I'm not....so what does all this have to do with solar panels....the solar industry is a farce. Without daddy putting his son on shortstop he'd never be there. Here's the real numbers as of 2010 per kilowatt of electricity.
Natural gas and oil. $00.03. That's three cents
Coal. $00.04 that's four cents
Hydroelectric. $07.00. That's seven dollars
Nuclear. $16.00 that's sixteen dollars
Wind and solar. $27.00 that's twenty seven dollars per kilowatt..
Without government subsidies these businesses don't remotely have a chance to compete.they just fall into their little niches of use fullness and practically disappear. They have uses but not the broad uses they have sold the world on. Our technology is not about to crash the door down like they imply. Just so we will keep pouring our money to them. After all , its not your money ....let her rip