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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
I hardly think its relevant what a 1/2 communist government, in one of the most populous nations on the planet and who is still mostly living in the stone age, and where they are not living in the stone age, they are almost wholly dependent on coal is doing in solar.
Its a physics and a math problem... not a "can a communist government who is one of the largest polluters in the world, spend the money to make a token effort for UN Summits to shut people up" problem.
The point is not whether or not to "discount solar"... obviously at some point in the future it will get figured out. The point is "right here, right now, today... its not".
The idea of covering all major highways with solar panels is insane, at best for a myriad of issues... not to mention the most obvious issue that roads are city, state, county and federal and can't be taken over by private enterprise.
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Why do you people act as if solar is some far off technology that the world has yet to grasp?
Is this photoshop? Some out take from a futuristic movie? A picture from a time traveler?
No.. It a single solar farm in Long Island. It outputs on average of 44,000,000 kilowatt-hours a year which is enough to power 4,500 homes. The electric produced doesn't disappear into a magical black hole, it gets used everyday. In fact it's a pretty damn good chance that electric you are using right now has partially been created by solar unless you live in a hole under a rock..
This is a picture of a single solar farm in the US but there are hundreds just like it all over the country.
I can see why green energy has such a hard time in this country. People are far to ignorant about it and have no clue what is going on in the world around them.
This is a website from a homeowner in Maine whom has built a house powered by solar. It's a big house and he keeps detailed records of his usage all the way back to 2011.
http://www.solarhouse.com
I just don't get people denying something that is used everyday as if it's some far off technology or a massive problem like sending men to mars.. It's not people live via solar power every day, right now.