Comments on: Solar Power Blowing Up in the United States

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:07:00 +0000

Bogus Andrew

By: andreww

andreww — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:56:00 +0000

Despite all the subsidies, Solar hasn’t even kept up with increased demand. In the last year $300 billion was spent on wind and solar schemes. Demand increased by 3X as much.

Solar and wind are NOT a solution. They are simply expensive supplements. The solar-charade will collapse soon.

By: U.S. Solar Industry Forming a Coordinated Team, Create U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium – CleanTechnica: Cleantech innovation news and views

Sun, 08 May 2011 00:01:52 +0000

[…] no secret, with size comes power. Now, the solar industry has been growing by leaps and bounds, but it is going up against a large, traditional fossil fuel industry that is several […]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:11:00 +0000

sorry, but this is not an article placed by solar panel salesmen. yes, if you look further back, solar power has been “blowing up” (http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/28/cleantechs-revolutionary-growth-expectations-for-coming-10-years/) — but even if you don’t do that, the point that solar more than doubled in 2010 warrants that phrase. http://cleantechnica.com/2011/02/17/international-solar-pv-nearly-doubled-pv-growth-doubled-in-2010/

projected growth is not based on nothing. it is based on a number of factors that have been carefully analyzed — dropping costs, government support, demand, and so on

By: International Solar PV Nearly Doubled, Growth Doubled in 2010 – CleanTechnica: Cleantech innovation news and views

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:00:48 +0000

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Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:01:29 +0000

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Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:00:58 +0000

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Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:00:59 +0000

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By: Trey Jackson

Trey Jackson — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:02:48 +0000

It is nice to have renewable energy on the rise, but this post is far from hopeful. It shows a meager linear rise in output of solar.

If you take a look electricity production in the us (wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States ), you’ll see that from 1992-2005 (13 years) 284 GW of electricity production was added, or roughly 20GW/yr, and this graph (optimistically) shows a 2!!!! GW/yr increase.

Looking at the rates of production of *all* renewable energy in the U.S., you can see that we’ve been making less and less (as a %age of total electricity) over the years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_United_States

We need to up the renewable electricity production by an order of magnitude, if not several orders of magnitude.

By: California Solar Engineering

California Solar Engineering — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:33:00 +0000

Its nice to get some facts to support what we have been feeling on the ground here for some time- Solar is the next big thing.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:19:17 +0000

@Dave: it would be nice if it included previous growth, which actually was similar. but this is based on things such as the dropping cost of solar, the rising cost of other energy sources, etc… i’m sure they used the previous years’ data though & showing those data in such a graph would be useful as well. things is, we cover that periodically on this site, so I think our normal readers are quite familiar with the info.

By: GO WEST !

GO WEST ! — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:30:52 +0000

I am glad to see the AllenWestForCongress ads !
Allen West says: energy is priority one !
RonKlein says whatever King Oumbama and Pelosi tell him to say.

By: Dave Brosius

Dave Brosius — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:37:35 +0000

i find it highly suspect that you have a graph with no history (pre 2010) and then extrapolate into the future. The projects might be right, who knows, but just showing that chart is bogus logic.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:06:52 +0000

Some recent takes on the industry in mainstream media aren’t nearly as optimistic:

Silicon Valley’s Solar Innovators Forced to Retool
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=679314&f=24

Green Startups: Trapped In the ‘Valley of Death’
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2010/tc2010106_187335.htm

By: Conie Joy

Conie Joy — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:20:14 +0000

I'm not surprised that solar power is blowing up in the United States. Why wouldn't everyone what to go green and save money? I agree that solar power for homes is the only answer to our current energy issues. I recently installed sharp's solar panels to the roof of my home. While I now work for them, they honestly offer the highest quality product at a reasonable price. I was really pleased with the deal I was able to get, as well as the immediate benefits to both the environment and my wallet. I would definitely recommend them.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:42:17 +0000

We sure hope you’re right Zachary. We’ve got a lot of eggs in this basket!