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NNadir

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5. We've heard similar predictions every two years for 50 years.
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 01:30 AM
Nov 2013

Actually we hear these predictions day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade...

And the result is?

More energy has been burned by people soothsaying about solar energy than has been produced by solar energy at every single point in its history.

The cost of building enough solar facilities to power the servers that tell us about how wonderful solar energy is already prohibitive, as its sucked hundreds of billions of dollars, euros, trillions of yen and yuan and has yet to produce even one exajoule of the 540 exajoules humanity is now producing.

The result of all this wishful thinking is that the planet is dumping dangerous fossil fuel waste into the atmosphere at the highest rate ever observed.

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Or HALF of ONE plant... FBaggins Nov 2013 #1
CORRECT!!! PamW Nov 2013 #2
It's what one expects from evangelists. GliderGuider Nov 2013 #3
Very true LouisvilleDem Nov 2013 #4
CORRECT!!! PamW Nov 2013 #6
We've heard similar predictions every two years for 50 years. NNadir Nov 2013 #5
No, we haven't. nt kristopher Dec 2013 #10
Numbers from National Academy of Science show 43GW of solar is significant kristopher Dec 2013 #7
YES!!!! EXACTLY as I stated... PamW Dec 2013 #8
Argue with someone else kristopher Dec 2013 #9
The answers were already posted... PamW Dec 2013 #11
"Solar at 2c/kWh? Not a matter of if, but when – and by whom" kristopher Dec 2013 #12
but guesses and hopes need to become reality backwoodsbob Dec 2013 #13
It is reality kristopher Dec 2013 #14
your snark aside backwoodsbob Dec 2013 #15
That is bullshit. kristopher Dec 2013 #16
no your full of it backwoodsbob Dec 2013 #17
It's their motto... PamW Dec 2013 #18
true backwoodsbob Dec 2013 #19
The same goes for that BS claim. kristopher Dec 2013 #20
so now I'm a RW'er to boot backwoodsbob Dec 2013 #21
It IS a standard right wing talking point kristopher Dec 2013 #22
WTH claim do you want me to give 5 cases of? backwoodsbob Dec 2013 #23
Ah, the backtracking starts... kristopher Dec 2013 #24
Are you referring to claims solar would be a major energy player? NickB79 Dec 2013 #25
A discussion of 'potential' is not a prediction kristopher Dec 2013 #26
kris splitting hairs between prediction and potential? NickB79 Dec 2013 #27
WTF are you talking about? kristopher Dec 2013 #28
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