After the millions of murders, and $650 billions of dollars, borrowed from our children’s futures and pissed away, with thousands of our own and others maimed and disfigured for life, millions of families utterly destroyed, ours and theirs, we are no closer to Iraqi oil production than the Iraqis are!

The next time you hear a blithering idiot spoiled brat, drunken, drug addicted, sociopath, rich Arabic saber dancing daddie’s boy oilman, stand at a microphone and threaten YOUR safety with someone ELSE’S weapons, remember what you lost America, remember, and weep! (also see http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan)

After the millions of murders, and $650 billions of dollars, borrowed from our children’s futures and pissed away, with thousands of our own and others maimed and disfigured for life, millions of families utterly destroyed, ours and theirs, we are no closer to Iraqi oil production than the Iraqis are!

The next time you hear a blithering idiot spoiled brat, drunken, drug addicted, sociopath, rich Arabic saber dancing daddie’s boy oilman, stand at a microphone and threaten YOUR safety with someone ELSE’S weapons, remember what you lost America, remember, and weep! (also see http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan)

But hey, some genius is working on panels and some G’s are working on generators, alternators or in some form a rotational power supply to take care of no peak hours.

Who knows if we ever go down in low voltage form some day, this is pretty bright to know that we all should throw out the ol’bulb and put in the new spiral whatchamacallit bulb.

It would not kill you if you had a skill to learn how to take combat showers instead of the hour you spend in that little bathtub filled to the brim with re-circulated hot water you call Jacuzzi

How about – This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine – sounds good doesnt it?

But hey, some genius is working on panels and some G’s are working on generators, alternators or in some form a rotational power supply to take care of no peak hours.

Who knows if we ever go down in low voltage form some day, this is pretty bright to know that we all should throw out the ol’bulb and put in the new spiral whatchamacallit bulb.

It would not kill you if you had a skill to learn how to take combat showers instead of the hour you spend in that little bathtub filled to the brim with re-circulated hot water you call Jacuzzi

How about – This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine – sounds good doesnt it?

assume the sun provides peak power from 10am to 4pm.(8 hours)

Question,what produces the power needed between 4pm and 8am (16 hours)??????

Question, what produces the power when there is 100% cloud cover for several days ????

assume the sun provides peak power from 10am to 4pm.(8 hours)

Question,what produces the power needed between 4pm and 8am (16 hours)??????

Question, what produces the power when there is 100% cloud cover for several days ????

First of all, this is solar thermal we’re talking about, not photovoltaics. It is commonly understood by engineers that one hundred square miles of solar thermal would replace all the energy requirements of the entire United States producing the energy equivalent of both the electricity and transportation needs of the country. So, you’re wrong.

Now a hundred square miles is a lot of land, but it sure isn’t the entire United States. The total land area of the United States is 3.7 million square miles. So you’re not only wrong, you’re off by a factor of about 370 times.

Furthermore, solar thermal is old school guaranteed technology. It’s just glass mirrors. They’ve been around for at least six hundred years and possibly longer. In fact, they were used for generating electricity even back in the nineteenth century in Egypt when oil was still first being extracted and was relatively costly as it has again become a hundred years later.

Solar thermal is still here a century later and it still works. In fact, thanks to cheap electronics and better materials, it’s far more efficient than it was back then despite still being more or less the same basic hundred year old design. Solar thermal works, it’s cheap, it’s abundant, it’s green, it’s domestically managed and a source of jobs.

There’s nothing not to like and making up reasons just to be cynical is an un-American thing to do. Zack, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

First of all, this is solar thermal we’re talking about, not photovoltaics. It is commonly understood by engineers that one hundred square miles of solar thermal would replace all the energy requirements of the entire United States producing the energy equivalent of both the electricity and transportation needs of the country. So, you’re wrong.

Now a hundred square miles is a lot of land, but it sure isn’t the entire United States. The total land area of the United States is 3.7 million square miles. So you’re not only wrong, you’re off by a factor of about 370 times.

Furthermore, solar thermal is old school guaranteed technology. It’s just glass mirrors. They’ve been around for at least six hundred years and possibly longer. In fact, they were used for generating electricity even back in the nineteenth century in Egypt when oil was still first being extracted and was relatively costly as it has again become a hundred years later.

Solar thermal is still here a century later and it still works. In fact, thanks to cheap electronics and better materials, it’s far more efficient than it was back then despite still being more or less the same basic hundred year old design. Solar thermal works, it’s cheap, it’s abundant, it’s green, it’s domestically managed and a source of jobs.

There’s nothing not to like and making up reasons just to be cynical is an un-American thing to do. Zack, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.