The sun seems like the cleanest, cheapest way to power our planet. Why haven’t there been any initiatives to research this technology further? Or have there been? What’s stalling the process?
In large parts of the country it can’t produce enough energy to be a total solution, particularly in winter. The initial outlay to put a system in is quite expensive. For a homeowner it would be $50K for any significant energy output.
California has just started an initiative. Schwarzenegger recently announced the most ambitious program – Southern California Edison, the region’s largest utility, installing solar cells on 65 million square feet of commercial rooftops over the next five years. “When it’s complete, it will produce enough power for 162,000 homes,” he said.
Clouds.
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Because solar panels are expensive! It is all I can do to run my vehicle thanks to Congress not letting us drill our own oil.
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it was the cost to make and maintain, and the little amount of energy that kept solar from being the dominant energy source, but new technologies are improving efficiency, so I fully expect it to make a big comeback.
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It isnt cost efficient. They only way people or towns can buy solar panels to produce energy is because Solar Panel manufaturers are subsidized by the government. Take away these subsidies and it is way too expensive to use solar panels. As technology increases solar energy will become more efficient thus more cost effective.
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Because it goes against the laws of thermodynamics. When heat is converted to energy heat is lost. Massive solar panels means massive ice age.
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It doesnt provide nearly enough power that we need. On top of that its expensive, and to high of cost to maintain.
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In large parts of the country it can’t produce enough energy to be a total solution, particularly in winter. The initial outlay to put a system in is quite expensive. For a homeowner it would be $50K for any significant energy output.
California has just started an initiative. Schwarzenegger recently announced the most ambitious program – Southern California Edison, the region’s largest utility, installing solar cells on 65 million square feet of commercial rooftops over the next five years. “When it’s complete, it will produce enough power for 162,000 homes,” he said.
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No good methods to store the energy created. Other than that, I think solar energy would work real well in sunny areas to boost the economy of places who have no real climate for a strong agriculture industry.
But for it to be a feasible solution nationwide, it would have to be turned into a government service like water department, and that would be claimed to be socialism.
he only solution that will be feasible and generate enough profit to not be considered socialism by corporatists, is nuclear energy and nuclear produced hydrogen for fuel.
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Sunshine is free.
That is a huge problem for capitalists.
Reserching new ways to dig and find where to dig is a much better thing to put money into.
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If that view was useful, John McCain would be president.
Because the people who run the US are wealthy old money families that have investments or own the oil companies and they want to continue to get richer to pass the money down through the leneage so they can continue to control the economy and this country for futures generations. Simple as that.
BTW Solar is not expensive in contrast to the number of lives we have lost in Iraq which is really all about controlling who has the oil and who is going to get the oil!!
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It gets dark at night and oftentimes it is cloudy during the daytime.
Should we all just turn off our heat and lights when these things occur??
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Have you ever heard of overcast and night time?
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