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Report: Solar could power 40% of US electricity by 2035
Associated Press ^ | September 8, 2021 | Matthew Daly

Posted on 09/08/2021 11:44:09 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Solar energy has the potential to supply up to 40% of the nation’s electricity within 15 years — a 10-fold increase over current solar output, but one that would require massive changes in U.S. policy and billions of dollars in federal investment to modernize the nation’s electric grid, a new federal report says.

The report by the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy says the United States would need to quadruple its annual solar capacity — and continue to increase it year by year — as it shifts to a renewable-dominant grid in order to address the existential threat posed by climate change.

The report released Wednesday is not intended as a policy statement or administration goal, officials said. Instead, it is “designed to guide and inspire the next decade of solar innovation by helping us answer questions like: How fast does solar need to increase capacity and to what level?″ said Becca Jones-Albertus, director of the Energy Department’s solar energy technologies office.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement that the study “illuminates the fact that solar, our cheapest and fastest-growing source of clean energy, could produce enough electricity to power all of the homes in the U.S. by 2035 and employ as many as 1.5 million people in the process.”

The report comes as President Joe Biden declared climate change has become “everybody’s crisis” during a visit to neighborhoods flooded by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Weather
KEYWORDS: 100percentby2020; 2035; apepee; associatedpravda; climatechange; climatechangehoax; fakenews; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; matthewdaly; newyork; photovoltaic; solar; xiden
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To: Billthedrill

Yeah, that’s not happening. Taking away cars from 90% of people would cause a total rejection of our political class. 3rd and 4th parties would form, etc.

Dems are expert at boiling the frog. They will keep slowly ratcheting things up as demographics increasingly favor them. They’re winning and they know it. No need to radicalize and wake up the suburbs.


61 posted on 09/08/2021 1:02:04 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

I used to think that too, but I’m watching an awful lot of Americans wearing face diapers like obedient little drones. I’m already dismayed by what the Aussies are putting up with. The revolution against it all appears to be led...by the French. World’s gone crazy.


62 posted on 09/08/2021 1:06:38 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Olog-hai

If no one used electricity, a D cell could power the
country for the next 100 years.


63 posted on 09/08/2021 1:08:25 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Olog-hai

AT.

WHAT.

COST?


64 posted on 09/08/2021 1:11:47 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: Olog-hai

I would at first doubt this, but this year I have observe new air conditioners technology that lowers power usage and RV air conditioners that run off DC.

As far as Electric Cars those need to get better.

As our battery, solar panels and other technology gets better this would be possible in the future.

If you ask men in the 1950s if a man could land on the moon in the 1960s, you will have a lot of people doubt it from the 1950s. Many people still think the moon landing was fake. Don’t be a flat earther.


65 posted on 09/08/2021 1:16:21 PM PDT by DEPcom (Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
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To: DEPcom

False comparisons.


66 posted on 09/08/2021 1:17:04 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: RouxStir

Close — wind-powered pigs.


67 posted on 09/08/2021 1:20:08 PM PDT by eastsider
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To: Olog-hai

Yeh if we all only have one lamp in our house and no AC. 😆


68 posted on 09/08/2021 1:37:05 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Olog-hai

This is the biggest lie I’ve seen, since THE BIG LIE Nov. 3, 2020.


69 posted on 09/08/2021 1:40:57 PM PDT by RobertoinAL
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To: Olog-hai

What do we do at night, on cloudy days and during rain, fog and snow storms? I suppose we shiver or swelter in our darkened homes while we hope for better weather so we can at least charge our electric car.


70 posted on 09/08/2021 1:41:22 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Billthedrill

The Uniparty needs to keep as many voters as possible invested in the current duopoly while they slowly move the electorate to the left via population replacement. Every day patriots die. Every day more third world goat farmers arrive. Time is not on our side.


71 posted on 09/08/2021 1:42:15 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Olog-hai
Being tasked to deliver 40% and actually delivering the full amount are two entirely different issues. Solar and wind are unreliable sources of energy.
72 posted on 09/08/2021 1:43:19 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

As long as the USA is like the southwest and daylight is 24 hours with no clouds it might work !


73 posted on 09/08/2021 1:45:03 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily
I had a thermosyphonic hot water heater in San Diego. Copper panels anodized black, covered with good quartz glass and a well insulated holding tank. It provided 100% of my hot water needs from March to September. October to February was operated in pre-heat mode. Solar heated the street water and it fed a mixing valve connected to the gas water heater.

The value proposition was based on expected skyrocketing of natural gas prices that never happened. About 4 years in on the 20 year touted "service life", the holding tank developed leaks. It sprayed mineralized water all over the fiber glass tank insulation. That eliminated the value of the holding tank as it expelled as much heat as the panels could collect. It was a first rate screw job. Never again.

74 posted on 09/08/2021 1:57:44 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: EEGator

Just Biden us back to the stone age.


75 posted on 09/08/2021 2:02:40 PM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Myrddin

Not really surprised !

Most solar savings valuations are based on a sort of “blue sky” pollyanna thinking !


76 posted on 09/08/2021 2:08:54 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Olog-hai

“40% of the nation’s electricity within 15 years.” Dream on. Never going to happen. Solar takes 75 years to break even. Fifteen years is when solar starts to warmed up to provide 2% of electricity. Doh!


77 posted on 09/08/2021 2:11:12 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: Olog-hai

TOTAL BULLSHEET!!


78 posted on 09/08/2021 2:13:44 PM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: rfp1234

War on American people.....


79 posted on 09/08/2021 2:16:50 PM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: Olog-hai

What a load of Horses#!t!!!!


80 posted on 09/08/2021 4:26:56 PM PDT by ontap
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