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[NNadir]

In another failure for the extremely expensive and essentially useless solar industry, the solar industry - which had no trouble sucking grant money from artists - reported its output from the $700,000 "55 kWp" solar installation at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art for the month of January, 2013.

The system produced zero energy on January 16 and January 17.

For the entire month of January, 2013, the system produced 1536 kWh of electricity.

The price of commercial grid based electricity in Massachusetts is 13.18 cents per kWh, meaning that the system produced $202.44 worth of electricity.

Since it's installation in May of 2007, the system has, as of this writing, 260,546 kWh of electricity, or $34,340 worth of electricity, suggesting a payback time, should the system not be destroyed or fail before then, of 20 years, not counting any maintenance on the system.

Solar energy is a trivial source of energy in Massachusetts, the United States, North America and the world at large. Despite the failure of 60 years of mindless cheering for this failed technology, people still wish to bet the planetary atmosphere on this chimera, which accounts for the fact that 2012 was the second worst year for increases in dangerous fossil fuel wastes ever observed on this planet (as measured at Mauna Loa.)

As of this writing, the data at Mauna Loa for the week of February 3, 2013, shows a value of 396.69 ppm carbon dioxide, an increase of an unprecedented jump over the first week of February 2012 of 4.53 ppm in a single year.

Weeklies at Mauna Loa

Heckuva job anti-nukes, you must be very, very, very, very, very, very, very proud.

But don't worry. Be happy.

The world has been going solar for about 60 years now, and we're getting betterer and betterer at it all the time.