Reply #2: It's grown by a brazillion percent since 1954. At this rate, it will be easy to grow brazillions

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of percent again in good 'ole "percent talk," which is the only kind of talk solar aficinado's do, except, of course soothsaying.

It's easy to grow one's wealth a brazillion percent when one has 2 cents, more difficult when one has a million dollars.

Since the early part of this decade we've been hearing this "solar is about to become cheap" and significant crap, but solar is still a trivial toy for bourgeois brats from the car CULTure who are trying to pretend that they are something other than "bourgeois brats from the car CULTure."

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/alternate/page/renew_energy_consump/table1.html

If solar <em>ever</em> gets to one exajoule, its external costs will become obvious.

In fact, even <em>before</em> that, it's generating a fair share of concern at the grassroots.

http://www.solarpowerninja.com/solar-panels/solar-panel-toxicity-targeted-in-report/

If solar ever becomes more than a toy, they'll be hell to pay.