Despite more than $200 billion in subsidies over the last 8 years.
How many solar panels would it take to produce one solar panel from scratch?
Well, to be fair, it HAS been cloudy. *SMIRK*
I used solar and wind power for FREE this week - drying laundry on the line.
I wonder if THAT will ever catch on, or am I headed for the Re-Education Camp now that I’ve admitted to cutting out the Middle Man and denying politicians their cut of the action?
*SNORT*
“..according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest Monthly Energy Review.”
Well now, isn’t that “special.” Another flock of worthless bureaucrats doing yet another “task” that we can do without. Just how many “adminstrations” do we need? If President Trump closed all of them down, we’d probably see a needed spike in our unemployment number. Seemingly, our government creates these useless “agencies” but never adds up their cost, or their benefit. The “benefit” is most likely putting more useless RAT voters on the public payroll. Or maybe worthless academians who couldn’t even hack being teachers.
And wind turbines don’t work when it’s too windy, too calm, or too cold. (Emperor Obama can’t command the wind, as Jesus did.) The east and west coast snobs better hope the uncouth energy producing peasants in TX, OK, LA, WVA, PA etc. manage to stay in business after they vote Hillary into office. She has vowed she will shut down fossil fuels, and it gets mighty cold in the winter. Dopes.
But we can quickly get that up to 15-20% by shutting down all the coal plants.
I’ll bet it’s not even that much.
A salesman convinced my brother to put solar cells on his house. He told my brother that they would pay for themselves with the electricity he would sell back to the power company. That was two years ago and my brother has never made a red cent from them.
Return vs tiatal cost? Estimated payback time. Operating costs? Estimated life of photo voltaic systems? Depreciation schedule?
Solyndra received a $535 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee, the first recipient of a loan guarantee under President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus program, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.[22] By 2014 the loan program had wiped out its losses, including a $528 million loss from Solyndra, and was operating in the black.[23] Additionally, Solyndra received a $25.1 million tax break from California’s Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority.[24]
Following the bankruptcy, the government was expected to recoup $27 million under the Solyndra restructuring plan, or up to 100% of loaned funds from a $1.5 billion lawsuit filed against Chinese solar-panel makers for alleged price fixing.[2] The outcome of the lawsuits were that: In November 2015 Yingli Green Energy Holding Co Ltd. settled a claim filed by Solyndra for $7.5 million; in April 2016 Trina Solar Ltd. settled a claim filed by Solyndra for $45 million; as of April 2016, Solyndra’s suit against Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd. has not yet settled.[25]
Where have all the birdies gone?
When will they ever return?
Fried crispy midair, they was..
Icarus revisited?
I’m winging it on this one. ;-)