Posted on 09/20/2014 3:21:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The U.S. is planning to train veterans to become solar panel installers in the next six years, the White House said Thursday.
The jobs training program is among a host of initiatives the White House says will cut carbon dioxide emissions by more than 300 million tons through 2030, plus save billions of dollars on energy bills for homeowners and businesses. It will launch this fall at one or more military bases and train a total of at least 50,000, including veterans....
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Oh great!
Wonderful idea,,,,
Job security for a lifetime....lol...
When I was a veteran’s career counselor it was all about asbestos abatement. Haven’t heard much about that lately.
What idiocy.
They still have business...
Even if they demolish a structure or do controlled burn, most jurisdictions require a asbestos clearance or removal. A lot of them have it in the floor tiles..
Of course not many people can afford to buy solar panels.
And what happens when climate change causes 7 months of cloudy days? /s
Training unemployed vets for this is a good idea.
However, until the solar panels operate in microgrids, they won’t have much impact. When that day comes, and it will, this program might work for the vets.
I am planning to put a small array at my place in the country in Alabama.
I want a degree of self sufficiency and there is not much sense in running a generator to power some small loads like lighting or rechargers..
Just a simple system with storage batteries and a inverter..
I don’t see solar ever competing dollar for dollar with nuke or nat gas, much less coal.
Right now and for the foreseeable future it is going to be a niche business without heavy subsidies, and this country is flat broke, any way you cut it. As is most of the Western world.
Unemployed vets are put at the head of the line at all state unemployment agencies..have been since Vietnam and even going back to WWII it was a general gratuity to veterans to give them priority.
I don’t see this jobs program as anything more than unadulterated politics.
It goes without saying that training someone to do something only starts with the trainees ability of aptitude of basic skills to accomplish a said task.
Some people were just not equipped to turn a screw driver or manipulate a multi-tool. Just making a blanket statement like they did is nothing more than more of their posturing behind the curtain. Just another of “Hey! Lets come up with something to show the vets we are on their side!”, while at the same time they cannot get into a VA Hospital.
Then like another poster said in referencing the available workload to sustain a paycheck, these unicorn chasers in the White Hut have no friggin idea.
I knew a guy who was running a solar water heater business. His business model was to hire a new salesman. The salesman would sell a heater to all his friends and family. He’d then fire that salesman and hire another. This is in a similar vein.
Another way of Obama funneling fed money to his cronies, keeping them afloat.
So many of Obama’s GREEN ENERGY companies got gobs of fed money then went bankrupt, you know......
I call more green BULL SH!T!
How about Alaska with months of dark?
We played this game already during the bad old days of the stimulus funding for training people for “green/energy savings” jobs. Saw it first-hand, large waste of money and time.
Hasn’t the Taxpayer been snookered enough by Obama’s beloved Solar Panel Companies? I doubt any state has 50,000 new solar energy system customers a year. I doubt many states have more than 5000 new installations a year. It might do fair in western states or even for about six months a year in Alaska. For most places it usually falls into the better than nothing for remote cabins etc where residential powerline installation cost is in the tens of thousands of dollars and up.
When everything hits the fan, having spent a premium dollar on some level of self-sufficiency on solar power will prove cheap indeed.
Unless you don’t believe that wont happen.
Thackney posted this the other day. The Fracking Business has found our Vet's and realizes they are top shelf employees and are snagging as many as they can.
In this Obama Nation, the winners are the Crony Socialists. In this case the Crony Socialists are the Obama friends that do the training. Look for huge government grants to Obama friends who set up training classes.
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