Posted on 03/11/2018 11:23:36 AM PDT by rktman
France will commit 700 million euros to the International Solar Alliance (ISA), President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday at the founding conference of the organization, reiterating the European country’s commitment to the alliance and clean energy.
ISA is an inter-governmental organization that aims to mobilize $1 trillion in funds for future solar generation, storage and technology across the world. It has 60 signatories, with 30 of those countries having ratified the agreement.
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They could have had a piece of the Solyndra action.
I’m a cynic. Is solar a good idea? What impact do those panels have on the environment? What is their longevity? What good are they in a spell without much available sunshine? What to do with chemicals and materials when they wear out? If solar were so terrific, why would it still need subsidies, after decades of use? Same questions with windmills. If they were so terrific, corporate interests wouldn’t need government involvement to prop up these industries.
Solar works
Despite the guvmint
Not because of guvmint
They will cost a lot of slave labor mining the rare earth needed to manufacture the panels;
They will kill birds and bats by the millions each year;
They will increase the number of insects in their countries normally eaten by the birds and bats;
They cannot generate power on demand; their power cannot be stored;
They can only operate under certain wether conditions;
They are hugely unprofitable;
They are politically correct, therefore they are environmentally friendly and automatically ‘green’.
Oh, from what I’ve read, the production of the panels causes YUGE amounts of toxic tailings/residue/material.
Then there's those dang solar panel fields. They create a micro-environment that affect the surrounding area. The Butterfly Effect is that small changes over time and distance create large changes. And they say us conservatives don't know science???
They lost me as I watched paid protestor try to put loggers out of business in 1990s; they lost me when they declare the bald eagle endangered as I watched dozens circling the fish waste bubble ups in Ketchikan, AK; they lost me when they forbade entry my outdoor work space because up the hill there was an eagle nest - built years before and long abandoned; they lost me when I learned that the term ‘endangered’ applied only locally - no matter how many where up the road, so to speak.
We are a petrol dependent planet no matter what these idiots conjure up.
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