Study: Solar power could add 123,000 new jobs by 2020

Business Wire ^ | 7/3/2007 | Staff

[P-40]

How many jobs could be added to the U.S. economy if we drilled in ANWR and off the coast of Florida?

Probably more than we have workers for. We may soon find out. I don't know about ANWR but some of the other areas of the 'No Zone' are supposedly going to be drilled soon.

[tcrlaf]

I remember the last great Solar Power “Surge”...

Many of what the door-to-door salesman sold still sit unused on rooftops on nearly every road I drive...

[tcrlaf]

I remember the last great Solar Power “Surge”...

Many of what the door-to-door salesman sold still sit unused on rooftops on nearly every road I drive...

[P-40]

Store it another 50 years at Yucca Mountain

And the fight at Yucca Mountain has been going on for how long? No one wants the stuff in their back yard.

yet solar gives us less than 1% of our energy.

That is a lot of energy. Now that we have abandoned the Carter-era rules and you can have solar concentrator facilities of substantial size, it will play a larger role. It is cheap, reliable, and waste-free.

[P-40]

still sit unused on rooftops on nearly every road I drive...

How do you know they are unused?

[tcrlaf]

Neighbor hadn’t used his since it broke down in the late 70’s,

It was finally removed last summer with the new roof.

Maybe 1 of 100 of these things are still being used.

[RightWhale]

Worldwide, the cost of converting sunlight to electricity is rapidly decreasing

I have seen no evidence of this. On the contrary, costs of photovoltaic cells seem to be increasing.

[SierraWasp]

Solar is the most expensive, least reliable and generally ridiculous energy source availble and you know it. Yet you just keep trolling for suckers and supporters unceasingly!!!

[P-40]

We’ve been using it for millions of years. I’d say it works quite well.

[SierraWasp]

The same place FRANCE, JAPAN, and several other industrialized nations store theirs! You just hype the nuclear fear like the anti-nuke-nazis like Jane Fonda, et al

[P-40]

costs of photovoltaic cells seem to be increasing.

I guess it would rise and fall with the price of silicon...which is high right now. Except for small uses, I can't see that type of usage being a major player for a long time to come. Solar concentrator facilities on that other hand, that is a whole different ballgame.

[crazyshrink]

Wow. Talk about jumping to negative opinions about someone w/o due consideration. Did the amnesty thing bother you that much? I am glad it died.

IMO, the gov’t boondoggle with the solar stuff & the solar use study both continue to keep me ROFLMAO. That and lots of other posts and links I read on the net.

Comic relief is good for the soul.

[WOSG]

“No one wants the stuff in their back yard. “

A remote mountain is in nobody’s ‘backyward’, and the Congress has resolved it. Yucca Mountain has been chosen.
nevertheless, used nuclear fuel can be recycled to minimize waste streams and eliminate completely the ‘long-lived waste’ that is a concern.

“yet solar gives us less than 1% of our energy.

That is a lot of energy.”

LOL. ‘less than 1%’ as in a fraction of even that.

Nuclear power generating capacity is 105,585 MWs, enough for 50 million homes. THAT IS A LOT OF POWER.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epat2p2.html

Go find out how much solar contributed and report on it.

“It is cheap, reliable, and waste-free.”
Nuclear power can make that claim, not solar.
Solar power remains hugely expensive, not competitive with
other forms of energy production and only put in place where massively subsidized.

[SierraWasp]

Well, of course! For fantastic industrial uses like getting sun burns, etc. I’d say get real, but I’ve watched your ridiculous relentless replys long enough to know better!!!

[P-40]

You just hype the nuclear fear like the anti-nuke-nazis like Jane Fonda, et al

No idea what that was supposed to mean but I'm assuming you are saying that we are somehow going to overcome the bad rap that nuclear power has in most parts of this nation. Good luck with that.

[RightWhale]

Solar concentrator facilities on that other hand, that is a whole different ballgame.

Even more expensive and nobody wants that in his yard frying his pets and garden vegetables.

[P-40]

Yucca Mountain has been chosen.

You bet it has been chosen. But what is stored there? That place will be in litigation for the next hundred years.

[P-40]

They are quite welcome here. Where they will be going there are no pets or vegetables to speak of.

[P-40]

I’ve watched your ridiculous relentless replys long enough to know better!!!

Glad you are still paying attention then.

[EGPWS]

Study: Solar power could add 123,000 new jobs by 2020

A study of "free enterprise" in total creating jobs is out of the question via PC directive however, right?