[Lockbox]

Don’t do the in depth research necessary to determine feasibility, don’t test with a small pilot program, don’t start up small production to determine true costs and problems with building the equipment, don’t figure out where you can get supplies of raw material beside child labor in 3rd world countries, don’t work on real world service and maintenance intervals and the part I really love from the Greens, don’t figure out how to recycle the worn out items such as wind mill blades!

I really love the used blade issue! Life expectancy quoted as 20 years. Real world experience is 8 to 9 years before replacing. Well that doubles the costs of blades! Oh and there really is no way to recycle them, so they are dumped in a land fill.... that’s Greens for you..... more latte for you?

[organicchemist]

In my opinion, there are “potential” ways to use solar energy to provide a major component of society’s energy needs. None of the current conversion/storage approaches seem feasible to me on a society-wide basis.

The BIG problem is that our overlords have chosen the ‘winner’ already and sounder approaches to the problem will not be given a chance. The dead horses of wind turbines and solar panels will be flogged to generate profits for the few while leaving most of us in actual danger from disastrous outages.