A lot of these jobs will be in areas of Texas where there is no economy to speak of.
1 posted on
07/03/2007 1:32:30 PM PDT by
P-40
To: P-40
Very cool. Hope it takes off.
2 posted on
07/03/2007 1:36:49 PM PDT by
MCH
To: P-40
123,000 new jobs huh. How many will be paid for in total with tax dollars or heavily subsidised? 122,000?
3 posted on
07/03/2007 1:37:47 PM PDT by
Phantom Lord
(Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
To: P-40
Solar power could add 123,000 new jobs by 2020...pedaling those little bicycle generators after the conversion to make up the shortfall and keep the lights on.
To: P-40
In the western part of Texas, there’s not much of anything to speak of. They could cover most of west Texas with solar cells and power the rest of the country. Not like there’s anything else to do with it.
6 posted on
07/03/2007 1:42:48 PM PDT by
GBA
(God Bless America!)
To: P-40
Gee, West Texas has hail storms. I am sure someone has thought of that.
10 posted on
07/03/2007 1:56:03 PM PDT by
hadaclueonce
(shoot low, they are riding Shetlands..)
To: P-40
utter baloney. imho.
solar is hyped by greenies but we could serve the entire nation with nuclear power with far less costs and far less numbers of workers...
123,000 people ??? $6-12 billion in employee costs alone just for Texas for electricity generation? They are on crack. That number of people would be enough to staff 200-300 nukes which in turn could power half the nation.
12 posted on
07/03/2007 2:11:29 PM PDT by
WOSG
(thank the Senators who voted "NO": 202-224-3121, 1-866-340-9281)
To: P-40
How many jobs could be added to the U.S. economy if we drilled in ANWR and off the coast of Florida?
Just curious.
19 posted on
07/03/2007 2:35:40 PM PDT by
bolobaby
To: P-40
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...
22 posted on
07/03/2007 2:48:47 PM PDT by
tcrlaf
(VOTE Democrat! You don't those stinkin' Freedoms anyway!)
To: P-40
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...
23 posted on
07/03/2007 2:49:34 PM PDT by
tcrlaf
(VOTE Democrat! You don't those stinkin' Freedoms anyway!)
To: P-40
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.
27 posted on
07/03/2007 2:58:25 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: P-40
Study: Solar power could add 123,000 new jobs by 2020A study of "free enterprise" in total creating jobs is out of the question via PC directive however, right?
40 posted on
07/03/2007 3:23:34 PM PDT by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: P-40
That would be nice — along with better use of coal and more drilling in Alaska and the Gulf (and such things as hydrogen from sea water, etc.).
47 posted on
07/03/2007 3:46:06 PM PDT by
unspun
(Acknowledgment of God affords life, popular & national sovereignty, liberty, responsibility)
To: P-40
123,000 jobs is a mere blip on the radar for the US, which will have a total population of 336 million by 2020.
52 posted on
07/03/2007 4:01:25 PM PDT by
kabar
To: P-40
more calls for illegal alien help and hb 1 visas? After all God forbid there might be jobs for Americans.
66 posted on
07/03/2007 6:00:08 PM PDT by
television is just wrong
(Amnesty is when you allow them to return to their country of origin without prosecution.take the get)
To: P-40
It’s Jackson Browne’s fault.
132 posted on
07/04/2007 7:35:28 AM PDT by
P.O.E.
(School's Out. Drive Safely.)
To: P-40; Siobhan; sockmonkey; B-Chan
Bump for later reading. Ping to others.
142 posted on
07/04/2007 12:19:47 PM PDT by
Maeve
(Do you have supplies for an extended emergency? Be prepared! Pray!)
To: P-40
" ... a recent University of California-Berkeley study that finds the solar industry produces seven to 11 times as many jobs on a megawatt capacity basis as coal-fired power plants ... "Sounds inefficient to me.
What if we put the labor effort into nuclear power?
To: P-40
Study: Solar power could add 123,000 new jobs by 2020 So could population growth.
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