nakedjaybird

Solar Power Continues to Shine

You're right Dickus, but we should not let that stop us from fully developing wind as an alternative energy to oil, gas and coal.

First, it's free energy.

Second, we need to use every technically and economically feasible (standalone, or even if using redirected oil, gas, coal, etc., subsidies and tax breaks) free-energy source (tidal, geothermal and maybe even biofuel, etc.). Especially, the friendly and simplistic ones like solar has and is becoming (what I mean by simplistic regards damage control, spiderweb complexities w.r.t. associated requirements [regulation], demands [multiple industry involvement], resources, etc.

For instance, solar requires sun and sand (simplisticly speaking). Silicon and glass (maybe: or equivalents) processing are the significant complexities.

I'd really like to see some solar sites producing solar energy to make or process the silicon (talk about reproduction: nearest thing to perpetual motion: well,........).

The Dutch and the early farmers in the US were not wrong in putting up windmills; and water-wheels came very early to human existence as well. As long as they are free and near simplistic, use them.

Oil, gas, coal and wood were fine to use (as was animal fat, bees wax, etc.) when they were on the surface; free-for-the-taking, more or less. But those energy sources have become far from free at the surface, not to mention or discuss their replenishment, and more so their complexities. Proof of that is all the media discussion and industry failure fear.