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Solar Provides 0.2% of Electric Supply--Up From 0.02% Before Obama
cns news ^ | 1/29/14 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 01/29/2014 5:16:08 PM PST by Nachum

(CNSNews.com) - Solar power, which President Barack Obama promoted in his State of the Union Address, accounted for 0.2 percent of the U.S. electricity supply in the first nine months of 2013, according to data published by the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration.

That is up from the 0.02 percent of the total electricity supply that solar power sources provided in 2008, the last calendar year before Obama took office.

“Now, one of the biggest factors in bringing more jobs back is our commitment to American energy,” Obama said in the State of the Union. “The all-of-the-above energy strategy I announced a few years ago is working, and today, America is closer to energy independence than we've been in decades.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: electric; epa; necessarilyskyrocket; obama; powergrid; solar; solarpower; sowyourseedinvain; supply
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1 posted on 01/29/2014 5:16:08 PM PST by Nachum
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2 posted on 01/29/2014 5:16:31 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

How ironic that fracking saved his @ss to a great extent.
Without it, with this winter, nat gas would be spiking bigtime.


3 posted on 01/29/2014 5:18:03 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: Nachum
Photo-electric energy has a place in the future and is an advance in technology, especially compared to Windmills.

Too bad batteries are still so technologically lame.

4 posted on 01/29/2014 5:18:24 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Nachum

My pants will never dry...


5 posted on 01/29/2014 5:18:57 PM PST by prisoner6 (FREEDOM)
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To: Paladin2

My tomatoes are solar powered;-)


6 posted on 01/29/2014 5:21:15 PM PST by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: prisoner6

Maybe if you put up a clothes line. :)


7 posted on 01/29/2014 5:21:28 PM PST by Ditter
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To: nascarnation
How ironic that fracking saved his @ss to a great extent. Without it, with this winter, nat gas would be spiking bigtime.

One conservative writer was actually disappointed that fracking was saving him. Otherwise, the public would be marching on the White House with pitch forks.

I, on the other hand, am grateful for any reprieve from the damage these jerk wads are doing to the country. Even if it makes the sleaze look better in the process.

8 posted on 01/29/2014 5:22:24 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: SgtBob

Solar Panels can help out when SHTF assuming one can stay put.


9 posted on 01/29/2014 5:23:16 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Nachum

I wouldn’t be surprised if the increase can be explained by those weaning off the grid in the event that the dictator starts a war, crashes the economy and declares martial law.


10 posted on 01/29/2014 5:23:27 PM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: nascarnation; Nachum
How ironic that fracking saved his @ss to a great extent. Without it, with this winter, nat gas would be spiking bigtime.

It certainty saved my @ss, I would have had $800 gas bills but I think you misunderstand the goals of this administration. From my perspective it seems that fracking has thrown a spanner in their efforts to collapse the entire system.

11 posted on 01/29/2014 5:25:18 PM PST by infool7 (The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
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those weaning off the grid

The opposite. The people like Solar City promoting solar are pure scammers. First they collect our tax money (not the homeowner). Second they sell the unreliable solar power back to the power company for full retail price. Instead of we ratepayers paying 4 cents for reliable power from a real power provider we pay 14 cents for someone to maybe give us some power at some point, but not when we need it the most.

(the exception is in the dessert SW where the sun always shines and the power can be immediately used for A/C.)

As mentioned above the unsolved problem is batteries. There are only two kinds of solar installations: the ones with batteries and the scams.

12 posted on 01/29/2014 5:33:42 PM PST by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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I’m really surprised they didn’t take credit for there being ten times more solar energy in use than there was. LOL


13 posted on 01/29/2014 5:33:43 PM PST by cumbo78
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Thats what I was thinking. 1000% Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


14 posted on 01/29/2014 5:38:52 PM PST by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: Nachum

And the cost is thousands of times per kilowatt as coal.


15 posted on 01/29/2014 5:40:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The only way women can "have it all" is if men aren't allowed to have anything.)
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To: Nachum

Might be .2%, but to increase from .02 all the way up to .2 probably cost more in 5 years than building all the infrastructure for the other 98% did in 100 years.


16 posted on 01/29/2014 5:40:59 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: SgtBob

My potato clock worked pretty well in 4th grade.


17 posted on 01/29/2014 5:46:05 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: palmer

I had a solar water heater for my pool. It worked very well. Solar has its uses but it sure isn’t going to replace power plants.


18 posted on 01/29/2014 5:47:59 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Nachum
Every time in conversation with a libtard that brings up "solar" power as an viable alternative to evil petroleum products...

I ask them what the current percent of the total energy produced does solar power currently provide ?

To the person most have no idea, but guess anywhere from 10 to 25 percent...

When I tell them it's under 2 percent they get this confused look like that impossible...

Then I ask them are they prepared to pay twice the electric bill if we get to 20 percent...

19 posted on 01/29/2014 5:54:24 PM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: driftdiver

I have a solar heater on my pool here in Florida and it works absolutely great in the late spring and early fall. Maybe extends the swimming season a month overall, that however will never replace an actual heater using real power. It’s a joke to think it will.


20 posted on 01/29/2014 6:02:15 PM PST by WHBates
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