[EBH]

It amazes me how much the general public doesn't know about their "green economy."

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Moonman62]

It amazes me how much the general public doesn't know about their "green economy."

They don't need to know. It's all about feelings and political correctness.

[G Larry]

>http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE58H5TM20090918<

“BrightSource drops solar project in Mojave”

Don’t kid yourselves!
These anti-industry, anti-people, liberals don’t want ANY form of electric power!

[EBH]

The key to the mixture's stability is replacing some of the hydrogen in typical silane with other molecules, such as carbon, to make the resulting gas less explosive.

[familyop]

Yuuuuuh! Them thar solar panels'll git you blowed up! Ah knowed ther wuz somethin' wrong with them thangs all along!

[PV panels have some good uses for those of us who aren't retarded, but the government welfare in the form of tax credits is wrong.]

[familyop]

There are some other interesting articles at Scientific American, such as, "String of offshore turbines along East Coast could provide steady supply of wind power" and "Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?"

;-)

[SunkenCiv]

In 2007, outside Bangalore, India, an explosion decapitated an industrial worker, hurling his body through a brick wall. In 2005 a routine procedure at a manufacturing plant in Taiwan caused a spontaneous explosion that killed a worker and ignited a blaze that ripped through the factory, shutting down production for three months. Both incidents shared a common cause -- silane, a gas made up of silicon and hydrogen that explodes on contact with air. And both incidents occurred in the same industry -- solar power. Among other environmental black marks, the process of manufacturing photovoltaic (PV) cells from silicon relies on this dangerous pyrophoric gas.

[Excellence]

bfl

[William Tell]

From the article: "... silane has been involved in 10 fatalities in the last 20 years"

That makes silane about as deadly as Toyota cars. But less deadly than swimming pools, water buckets, and bicycles.

This article sounds like a PR effort by the company making the competing product.

[tickmeister]

Anything anybody does is eventually going to kill somebody one way or another. I can’t remember, has anybody ever been killed mining coal for conventional power plants?