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Solar Generated Less Than 1% of U.S. Electricity in First Half of 2016(hidabama plan)
cnsnews.com ^ | 9/30/2016 | Barbara Hollingsworth

Posted on 09/30/2016 7:55:33 AM PDT by rktman

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Lucky for us that hildabama proclaimed during the "discussion" Monday night that building more solar panels will add millions of excellent paying jobs if she's (s)elected and not only that, it will enable humans to gain control over the environment as well. Can it get any better? #polarbearsmatter
1 posted on 09/30/2016 7:55:34 AM PDT by rktman
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Despite more than $200 billion in subsidies over the last 8 years.


2 posted on 09/30/2016 7:56:43 AM PDT by Brilliant
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How many solar panels would it take to produce one solar panel from scratch?


3 posted on 09/30/2016 8:00:32 AM PDT by CMB_polarization
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Well, to be fair, it HAS been cloudy. *SMIRK*


4 posted on 09/30/2016 8:01:18 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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I used solar and wind power for FREE this week - drying laundry on the line.

I wonder if THAT will ever catch on, or am I headed for the Re-Education Camp now that I’ve admitted to cutting out the Middle Man and denying politicians their cut of the action?

*SNORT*


5 posted on 09/30/2016 8:03:45 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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“..according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest Monthly Energy Review.”

Well now, isn’t that “special.” Another flock of worthless bureaucrats doing yet another “task” that we can do without. Just how many “adminstrations” do we need? If President Trump closed all of them down, we’d probably see a needed spike in our unemployment number. Seemingly, our government creates these useless “agencies” but never adds up their cost, or their benefit. The “benefit” is most likely putting more useless RAT voters on the public payroll. Or maybe worthless academians who couldn’t even hack being teachers.


6 posted on 09/30/2016 8:05:00 AM PDT by vette6387
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Birds get burnt alive mid-air by intense glare from solar farm - The ravens "turned white hot and vaporised completely" according to witnesses.

Biologists witnessed at least 130 birds getting burnt alive on a SINGLE DAY at the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project in Nevada.

7 posted on 09/30/2016 8:05:11 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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And wind turbines don’t work when it’s too windy, too calm, or too cold. (Emperor Obama can’t command the wind, as Jesus did.) The east and west coast snobs better hope the uncouth energy producing peasants in TX, OK, LA, WVA, PA etc. manage to stay in business after they vote Hillary into office. She has vowed she will shut down fossil fuels, and it gets mighty cold in the winter. Dopes.


8 posted on 09/30/2016 8:08:27 AM PDT by txrefugee
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What happened to the $900 billion slush fund Stimulus package that Congress gave to Obama?

He seems to have turned it into something less substantial than Unicorn butt gas.


9 posted on 09/30/2016 8:09:33 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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“Well, to be fair, it HAS been cloudy. *SMIRK*”
Outstanding!


10 posted on 09/30/2016 8:15:45 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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But we can quickly get that up to 15-20% by shutting down all the coal plants.


11 posted on 09/30/2016 8:20:09 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I think Obama had put Joe Biden in charge of tracking Porkulus spending??? Did Joe ever report back???

And whatever happened to recovery summer?? Recovery summer was the summer of 2010. Are we there yet???


12 posted on 09/30/2016 8:23:24 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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I’ll bet it’s not even that much.


13 posted on 09/30/2016 8:26:29 AM PDT by cymbeline
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Have never understood why the greenies haven’t insisted on going back to the installation of clothes lines. We didn’t have a clothes dryer for at least the first 25 years of my life. Loved the smell of fresh sheets on the bed and whites certainly were whiter without having to use so much of that “evil” bleach.


14 posted on 09/30/2016 8:26:56 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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Because there’s more to solar than just drying something.

I’m sure the hippies aren’t against clotheslines, but it’s only one aspect of many things that use electricity.


15 posted on 09/30/2016 8:29:58 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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Barbra Streisand was infamous for her condescending “advice” to use clotheslines, so it’s been out there. Trouble is, if everyone went back to clotheslines, the screams from home owner’s associations across the country would be deafening, it’s too unsightly for them. And, with nobody home during the day in most working age households, who has the time? Are you going to hang it out at night and take it down the next night?


16 posted on 09/30/2016 8:33:48 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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“...$200 billion in subsidies over the last 8 years.”

Heck, California spent at least double that for solar energy over the past 8 years. The 605 freeway has over a few hundred new giant power poles running it’s length for the sole purpose of providing solar power to So. Cal. And despite all of this new clean renewable energy, my electric bill keeps increasing.

Bunch of BS. Renewable energy = 21st Century Ponzi Scheme


17 posted on 09/30/2016 8:34:43 AM PDT by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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Solar is a great idea if you want to live off the grid, but not competitive at all if you have available utilities.


18 posted on 09/30/2016 8:45:52 AM PDT by refermech
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Monday was always laundry day at our house and my mom worked every day. Our Mondays began at 4 a.m. The laundry was all done and hung out by 7 a.m. One of the chores on my list at the end of my school day was to take down and fold laundry and put it all away, except for the bedding which my mom ironed on the mangle on Monday evening after dinner and shirts, pants and dresses which went into the refrigerator after being sprinkled. Tuesday night was set aside for ironing of those items.

It’s a matter of priorities and everyone in the family helping out, including the kids. Of course we didn’t spend hours in front of the TV and kids didn’t play video games either. HOA’s are another matter I’d rather not get on my soap box about. We did put up a short clothes line in our back yard though and have noticed a very few others popping up. None of them extend above the fence line though. So far so good!


19 posted on 09/30/2016 8:49:41 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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A salesman convinced my brother to put solar cells on his house. He told my brother that they would pay for themselves with the electricity he would sell back to the power company. That was two years ago and my brother has never made a red cent from them.


20 posted on 09/30/2016 8:50:45 AM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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