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Solar and Cash: The Big Boys Have an Answer - Do You?

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It would take a field of solar panels or wind turbines the size of a city, to power a city of the same size.
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You don't need wind turbine's the size of the city itself lol. My hometown in Europe has 30.000 souls and is currently almost fully supplied of energy by 9 windmills at the nothern fringe of the city near the industrial zone. ... thats just 9 (2MW) turbine's ... you cant even see them from the other side of the town. :p

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What happens at night? Or when the wind isn't blowing? You're telling me that you can store the extra energy accumulated during the day to keep our city powered at night??
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Some yes, the rest you get from other sources, and the excess you get on good wind days goes to other places. Anyway, its not because the wid blows less at one site that it does so on an other side to. We have windmills al over Europe and there is no problem with exporting for ex electricity from Denmark to france or vice versa.

The Danish have 20% of their energy from wind, and its still growing. And its not like they have regular power outages, au contraire, i think that appens less in Denmark than in other country's.

Anyway, there are enough engineers to provide a sollution for all youre concerns. It's not that i know all the methods on how they resolve these issues, though i doubt you have technical expertise in these fields youreself, no pun intended, just that i doubt that what you put forward are really difficult concerns.

The 'Problem' With Solar Companies is Not Really a Problem

I gues they just had to find a reason for their downgrade. It would actually be quite funny if the market wasn't dropping like a stone right now.

But i think we already established the fact as investors that much of the oppinions we get from these banks are very superficial and usually just crap.

Their motivations arn't hard to read neither. If all thing's move so fast on upgrades or downgrades, then afcourse it's an easy for these banks to manipulate their positions in their advantage, be it holding or shorting. And we all know they need money very very badly. Manipulating a market then that is very volatile can afcourse provide a lot of potential for money maing then, plenty of possible down- and upside potential.

I live in Europe to, and i have my skepticism to when they tend to touch European subsidies. I am however glad that Europe is years ahead in the market and that our policy makers have shown some vision about alt energy that they arn't likely to drop that fast. Alt energy is a growing sector in Europe, one that provides a lot of income and employment, it's enough incentive IMo for our politicians to continue their support.

And it doesn't always have to be subsidies neither. One particular German city for ex. is now forcing people by law to install solar panels on every new build house from now on. It is expected that by 2010 this will be coman law all over germany, if not also in many other EU country's.

The 'Problem' With Solar Companies is Not Really a Problem

Well said. The analysts made me laugh to. Way to state the obvious.

I don't give a shit about what they say neither.

Suntech, SunPower, MEMC and First Solar: Four Solar Stocks Worth Investigating

All these seekingalpha guys forget about such company's as REC and Q-cells. In general there is very very few talk here about european renewable stocks. Even as they hyped the market in 2007 few ever came to talk about such great company's like Vestas or Gamesa, wich is wind power.

But my money is mostly in european renewables. REC, Q-cells, Vestas, Gamesa, and not to forget Roth & Rau, wich is an excelent company and just tottaly forgotten here.