Green industry is a government sponsored bubble .. the sooner we let it crash the better

 

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The question is, 'How much that 2.1 Billion were they given already?'.

 

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The cost of solar panels is $1/watt, and still falling.

Costs go to $4-$5/watt for OFF GRID systems, which is not what we are discussing here, because we are comparing costs to generate electricity for the grid. I will say again what I said above, which refers to the wikipedia link I posted (I'll even bold the two important words which you keep saying proves your point, so you can refer easily back to my own evidence):







Funny. You haven't provided a single piece of evidence here or in any other thread about this topic.

Please defend your statement that solar is NOT economically viable, or please stop posting about this topic.





You are so ridiculous about this stuff it hurts.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=External_costs_of_coal

"Our comprehensive review finds that the best estimate for the total economically quantifiable costs, based on a conservative weighting of many of the study findings, amount to some $345.3 billion, adding close to 17.8¢/kWh of electricity generated from coal. The low estimate is $175 billion, or over 9¢/kWh, while the true monetizable costs could be as much as the upper bounds of $523.3 billion, adding close to 26.89¢/kWh. These and the more difficult to quantify externalities are borne by the general public." The average residential price of electricity at the time of the report is 12¢/kWh.[13]

Skeptical Science notes that when the coal externalities of the study are included in coal's price, it increases the levalized costs to approximately 28 cents per kWh, which is more than the 2009 U.S. Energy Information Administration cost of hydroelectric, wind (onshore and offshore), geothermal, biomass, nuclear, natural gas, and solar photovoltaics, and is on par with solar thermal, although the costs of solar thermal are falling.[15]

That quotation is just one of the multiple studies done, and the most conservative estimate. Harvard, in 2011, estimates coal actually costs $500 billion more annually in externalized costs.

And you want to add $1/kWh for the cost of solar panels to create silicon computer chips; silicon being the second most abundant substance in the earth crust?

Now you've resorted to just making things up. Great job, paul.

 

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Cano Petroleum filed for bankruptcy.

Obviously that means that oil is a loser.

They should have gotten a subsidy.

 

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Free Energy is a nightmare for utility companies, they will do anything to not allow it to happen!

 

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Free Energy isn't free. During their life solar panels don't pay for their own costs. They need to be subsidized for that. The raw materials for making them are very expensive and vast amounts of natural landscape is destroyed in the process of harvesting them. But since that happens in China we don't have to worry about it and can feel good and happy and better than lowly fossil based energy addicts.

 

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Hopefully there is a congressional investigation

Its a mistake to assume that this just started right now.

Its funny how petty Paul makes people become when he destroys them.
On topic: can we please stop throwing money at a failed industry? Has solar ever been profitable? And apparently not even subsidies can keep them afloat.

 

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Solar companies in the US can't compete with Chinese companies because of the amount of money thrown at them by their government. You are seeing green energy efforts fail here because China is doing everything they can to win.

 

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