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Wall Street Gets Downbeat on Solar

California get 15% of electricity from coal but not one coal fired powerplant exists in California.. All is imported from other states through gridlines... We will need 30-50% more coal in ten years as dozens of coal fired powerplants will be built in America.. Can solar keep up with it?? We need to find thousands and thousands of acres of raw land or rooftops to place solar modlues on... We have to climb up and down buildings to install one module by one module that delivers only 60 watts each... When you talk about gigawatts of electricty., you are talking about billions of modules.. where are they?? and Where is the place to install?? Tax breaks will not help with rooftops and land...

Are First Solar's Thin Film Panels Piling Up?

The fledging solar industry is David as compared to Goliath , the fossil fuel industry.. Come to think of that... The solar industry has yet to contribute a mere one percent to the overall energy picture in the world... You have to understand that we are paying far more to fossil fuel industry than what we are investing in solar industry. If we are going to lose money in the solar industry, it will still be relatively small as compared to money we will be paying to fossil fuel industry at gyrating prices. If the solar industry manage to take only 5% of the fossil fuel industry , fossil fuel prices will remain stagnant and unable to climb.. This is how little we need to invest in solar industry to keep the Big Mean Oil Wolf at bay... Invvestors dont care as long as no profits is seen and they dont care about your low oil prices.. They dont care what may happen to fossil fuel prices... They are after profits. Free enterprise! So what are you gonna do about it? Dont ask me! Think for yourselves..

Are First Solar's Thin Film Panels Piling Up?

Probably this was why oil prices keep on falling so to make solar energy "uncompetitive". After there is a shake out in the solar industry, oil prices will climb up again and we will find ourselves short on solar producers and remains dependent on oil producers as before... This is an old capitalist trick that socialists keep on falling for... Socialists who invest in solar energy are counting on high oil prices for profits and capital gains, but socialists are not smart enough to know that low oil prices wont last... Socialists do not understand risks and rewards... Even if oil prices keep low for a long time, we will save more money than we would with profits from solar industries dependent on high oil prices. The problem is who will pay to investors who hold solar stocks at a loss in order to stem oil prices from climbing higher.. Who will ? Capitalists wont, but someone got to pay to investors somehow... If not, our economy will remain a hostage to the oil prices..