Comments by "hg2" (@hg2.) on "The Truth About Solar" video.

  1. Thank you for sharing and informing us of this!
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  2. Because it's a childish feel-good infomercial for economic idiots whole don't want to work real jobs.
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  3. Yeah, you like the gee-whiz song and dance tech-hype, loaded with half truths, imprecisions, and hype innuendos, like that giant piece of climate quackery Inconvenient Truth.
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  4. Dumb Dumb Dumb... "Renewables" are a Kids Lemonade Stand business at poor-peoples taxpayer expense. See Germany for how to screw up your energy production.
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  5. +m1aws The increasing stupidity of the comments here are remarkable. It's like a race to the bottom.
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  6. +Alex James Stupid Bernie Sanders Vermont SHUT DOWN a nuclear power plant that supplied the whole state with power. That RAISED THE PRICE of electricity for poor people. Enter rinky dink Solar... that's the context of your disgusting "making it work". You and your Starbucks poseurs are disgusting.
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  7. +Simon WoodburyForget In an earlier time, it was idiots like you who brought us collectivised agriculture aka communism.
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  8. +Passed High School Physics Absolutely, Passed. This "renewables" crap is the Kids Lemonade Stand version of energy production.
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  9. +topflight408 YOUTUBERS BEWARE: This is the kind of thug that's behind the quack-science superstition of the solar crap.
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  10. +Mentholatum101 Solar hustling is justified by a quack-science superstition called "global warming".
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  11. +Passed High School Physics Never mind. NIF is National Ignition Facility, a laser fusion money pit boondoggle that is always 10 years away from commercialization - another screwing of the taxpayer.
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  12. +vikash achary co2 is climate trivial, at most. co2 is beneficial to plant life ("crops") co2 is measured in 300-600 ppm (Parts Per MILLION), or 0.03 % of the atmosphere - i.e. a trace gas climate is always changing. given the climatological trivialness of co2, the is plenty of reason to believe co2 increases are an effect - not cause - of warming. if there is an option, warming is preferable to cooling. This is a hack political hustle advanced by opportunists and "useful idiots".
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  13. Check out Thorium videos by Kirk Sorenson and others for a real energy alternative.
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  14. +Ashish Patel In other words: more cost shifting to apartment renters and poor people, right? See how's Germany's play-energy indulgence is working out out and how rates are going through the roof for everyone except thise playing Kids Lemonade Stand play-energy generation.
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  15. +CNCmachiningisfun Solar energy is... 1) A child of climate quackery 2) A Kids Lemonade Stand business 3) A "LOOK MA! NO HANDS" status symbol and hobby. For an abundant energy future, see the Kirk Sorenson videos on Thorium and MSRs (Molten Salt Reactors).
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  16. DIY solar: LOOK MA! NO HANDS! Are you playing the SOLAR-AS-STATUS-SYMBOL game too? I'm sure that plays well with the Starbucks crowd. This is well-documented behavior: when apes have extra time on their hands, they engage in "improving status" -- now play the ape noises Tim Allen makes. Thorstein Veblin wrote a famous book about this called Theory Of The Leisure Class.
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  17. How are the bananas of climate quackery and solar-than-thou status symbols tonight?
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  18. +Yoyo Ma Right on, Yoyo.
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  19. +afa1515 We are in democracy's lawless, unprincipled, unconstitutional stage: Try this for first principles instead of listening to that stupid Starbucks theme song for the millionth time: Power is evil, because of the following golden rule of politics: "Liberty" is a poetic term for property rights. Therefore there are only TWO KINDS OF LAWS: - those that protect property rights, - and those that attack property rights. "Have the government do unto others as you'd have the goverment do unto you."
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  20. Bullsh#t. Solar is Kid's Lemonade Stand play-acting. Do any of these GEE WHIZ solar troubadours figure the cost of REAL ESTATE in their song and dance? Kids Lemonade Strands, at taxpayer expense? anyone?
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  21. +Hexyl Cinnamal Solar is a disgusting subsidy to the idle rich for a Kids Lemonade Stand business.
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  22. +m1aws ??? Solar subsidy schemes make people poorer. is that your point?
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  23. +m1aws That is a function of the crime of inflation. http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/x-marks-the-spot-wages-started-losing-when-the-dollar-was-delinked-from-gold-in-1971/
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  24. No, batteries aren't "the problem" because the is no "problem", except the hardships to be imposed by the climate and solar quacks.
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  25. +Alex James You are an overgrown spoiled child with too much time on your hands.
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  26. +Alex James Oh really? "Everyone" could be making more money if the just followed your school-boy science-class fantasies about rinky-dink solar? Gee! Have you advertised yourself as a consultant?
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  27. +Alex James REMOVE THE SUBSIDIES. How many times do I have to remind you of that turd in your punchbowl?
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  28. +enator71 Right. Greener-than-thou BRAGGING RIGHTS for the wealthy, while costs are shifted to the rest of us. Solar Sucks!
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  29. +Alex James It's an armchair entrepreneur, kids lemonade stand, schoolboy science project. See the Thorium videos by Kirk Sorenson a serious energy solution.
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  30. +Alex James No, YOU read up it. Read up on the cost shifting to poor people with that stupid Net Metering. Read up on the German renewables, anti-nuke Double Whammy fiasco and how that's working out.
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  31. +Alex James Spend your own money on your dipshit science projects.
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  32. +enator71 "can't happen without subsidy" <--- your embrace of climate quackery has made you un-American.
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  33. +enator71 Was I talking to you about the Vermont Germany-in-the making solar nuclear fiasco ?
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  34. +m1aws This is someone who has done zero Thorium investigation.
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  35. +Alex James You're an ignorant blowhard whi drank too much climate quack cool aid : 1) see the Kirk Sorensen talk on nuclear waste 2) I'm opposed to subsidies, but if a fraction of that stupid solar subsidy was spent on Thorium, we'd have it by. Instead the money is pissed away on these disgusting cost shifting school boy science projects, for the benefit of rich kid Starbucks pontificators .
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  36. +m1aws See the Kirk Sorensen videos, you armchair Monday morning quarterback.
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  37. +m1aws What a stupid comment. Only someone ignorant of the thorium movement would make it.
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  38. +m1aws Not ok when it comes to blowhard climate quacks like yourself peddling imposing quack solar through political means and pissing away capital that could be spent developing thorium, privately. You are an obstacle to human progress.
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  39. +m1aws The reason we have have stupid conversations like this is because blowhards like you can't keep to minding your own business and trying to impose a conceited sense of superiority on the rest of us.
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  40. +m1aws "A" YouTube video? That's a stupid comment. There are dozen of Thorium videos, many over an hour long, including at least 5 different TED speakers on the subject. Stick to your backyard bragging rights and your solar-than-thou conceits.
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  41. Maybe it's TOO EXPENSIVE... or does that nuisance detail never enter the feel good conversation ?
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  42. +bluephreakr Sure! And if money grew on trees we wouldn't have to work. The "let them eat cake" attitude of these Starbucks intellectuals is disgusting.
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  43. +bluephreakr It's the solar quacks and their Kids Lemonade Stand business that are delusional. Solar is the "radical chic" of the era.
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  44. +m1aws "Coal is a small part of electric generation" ??? You are a fool.
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  45. +diceman199 "We need better storage methods " How profound! Why didn't I think of that? Why don't you get your t two-faced politicians and quack scientists to launch a national campaign tax effort to "get better storage methods"... what could be wrong with that?
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  46. Does this feel-good infomercial mention the tax subsidies this privileged industry gets? (tax subsidies = cost shifting to poor people; poor people pay higher electricity bills because of solar cost shifting subsidies)
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  47. Off Grid = Status Symbol: LOOK MA! NO HANDS!
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  48. Solar is a Kids Lemonade Stand boondoggle for rich kids who don't want to do the work of a real job.
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  49. JR? This is 11232. over. :)
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  50. +Steve Dekker Thank you Steve. I submit that the reason we're required to engage in these stupid conversations in the first place is because the climate quacks and hustlers can't keep to minding your own business and are trying to impose taxes, hardships, and a conceited sense of superiority on the rest of us. Here are the first principles the climate quacks violate: Power is evil, because of the following golden rule of politics: "Liberty" is a poetic term for property rights. Therefore there are only TWO KINDS OF LAWS: - those that protect property rights, - and those that attack property rights. "Have the government do unto others as you'd have the goverment do unto you."
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  51. "Solar... Toys for the affluent." David Stockman
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  52. +Simon WoodburyForget Please go lock yourself in the nearest Starbucks and throw away the key. There you can spew your "let them eat cake" idiocies to echo chamber approval of your fellow elitists.
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  53. Yeah! That's where those foolish Germans are going to end up as a result of their "renewables" fiasco. Typical govt-hysteria-driven screwup.
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  54. +Fizzwerth o_O So what? Are salmon more important than people? By the pagan-animist values of sites like this, they are. These are bad people.
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  55. +Jason Deveau Stupid comment. The renewable idiots of Germany are rushing to coal plants to plug the holes left by nuclear and the wishful thinking of solar.
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  56. Public Schools radicalize clueless juveniles for Climate Quackery the way Saudi madrasses radicalize for ISIS jihad.
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  57. +cgm778 Solar is a boondoggle for conceited people who don't want to do the hard work of making an honest living. It's a looser without screwing the taxpayer with subsidies.
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  58. +MrAnchorman123 If solar is so great, remove all those goddamn subsidies, starting with that disgusting Net Metering, which shifts cost to poor people. Solar is a stupidly self indulgent Kids Lemonade Stand "lifestyle" type of business.
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  59. +OohzyJohnDow Absolute elitist, clueless nonsense! It's simple but toxic to elitist liberals: if solar is so great, it doesn't need subsidies. But it's Not so great, and it needs the stupidly maligned "grid" to come in and take up the slack when - surprise surprise - Night comes. Solar is an intelligence-insulting kid's lemonade stand business.
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  60. +OohzyJohnDow That's right, you live in a childish communalist fantasy, as opposed to a market reality. And in attempting to impose your John Lennon Starbucks fantasies on the rest of us, impose hardship, unhappiness, and suffering instead. You are an aggressive, evil person.
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  61. +OohzyJohnDow See what's going on in Germany for the solar fiasco, rising prices, cost shifting to lower middle class, frantic replacement of nuclear plants with coal. i.e. sheer Kids Lemonade Stand stupidity.
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  62. +OohzyJohnDow Spare me your self regarding, self serving, 'Im so great' sermons.
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  63. +OohzyJohnDow You luxuriate and mirror gaze at other people's expense.
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  64. +OohzyJohnDow Not knowing that is another of your shortcomings.
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  65. +Minuteman You're not getting it. "Renewables" are a Kids Lemonade Stand play-business that is paid for by working class cost shifting. Support that political rip off and you are a bad person.
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  66. +topflight408 You are celebrating evil. The "happy solar people" are SCREWING the non solar people with the tax subsidies, cost shifting, and that Disgusting Net Metering! If you to play earth boy Kids Lemonade Stand, DO IT WITH YOUR OWN MONEY, you schmuck.
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  67. +topflight408 "Thou shalt not steal". Sounds pretty simple me, you obnoxious self righteous idiot. BTW, if it's so cheap, remove the subsidies, you creep.
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  68. +topflight408 I think you should change your name from Topflight to LowLife. If the Founding Fathers could only hear your asinine comments about taxes over something as foolish and quack-science as "solar", they'd think people like you aren't worth the effort.
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  69. +OohzyJohnDow You live in the echo chamber of your full-of-crap fantasies subsidized by poor people.
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  70. +topflight408 In your characteristically blind following of the pagan superdtitionist narrative, you neglect to account for these companies bilking the taxpayer through the stupid solar subsidies, just like the sainted Elon Musk. They are doing it to make money. Without the ripoff poor-screwing subsidies, they don't do. You are a mighty, dangerous fool.
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  71. +John Benton How do you pack so many stupid statements into such a small space?
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  72. +John Benton No, on the contrary, your stupid sarcasm is so thick you can cut its elitism with a knife. You were encouaged in this obnoxious attitude by twerps like Jon Stewart, who are neither funny nor wise. and neither are you, or your mirror gazing disgusting conceit.
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  73. +topflight408 Yes, there are several on this sleazy mirror gazing hangout who have the patience and depth to talk sense to you idiots, and I have nothing but respect for them . I don't have the patience to speak in depth to you disgusting idiots, one reason being that a bright teenager can overturn the childish quack science of solar a solar and global warming, so I lose patience very quickly.
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  74. +CNCmachiningisfun Then why are you here promoting this crap?
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  75. +topflight408 <--- is in the solar installation business, profiteering off taxes on poor people. Anything self serving here?
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  76. +enator71 Is that in percentage terms?
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  77. +CNCmachiningisfun Hi CNC - my happy hobbyist. it's me again. Do you include the 'cost' of your labor in your diy-energy efforts? Or no? By the same token, do you pay yourself in solar-than-thou bragging rights? Do you count the cost the rest of us have to pay in listening to that crap since we're forced to come to idiot-blogs like this and defend ourselves against the onslaught of the climate quacks and solar hustlers?
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  78. +CNCmachiningisfun .... and I forgot the a couple other things about solar: does the real estate for it come for free? Do the panels have to be cleaned and is that labor provided by slaves? do you have to pay higher property insurance premiums. if there's a hail storm, will your insurance cover the damage? if it's so great, and it adds value to your house, will your liberal for-the-children property taxes go up?
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  79. +CNCmachiningisfun No, you get off the genteel bragging rights bandwagon of the tax-coerced solar fad. Try this for first principles instead of listening to that stupid Starbucks theme song for the millionth time: Power is evil, because of the following golden rule of politics: "Liberty" is a poetic term for property rights. Therefore there are only TWO KINDS OF LAWS: - those that protect property rights, - and those that attack property rights. "Have the government do unto others as you'd have the goverment do unto you."
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  80. +CNCmachiningisfun You are a greener-than-thou poseur belle of the ball hitching a ride on a stupid fad.
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  81. +enator71 What are you talking about?
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  82. +enator71 If you want to take petroleum off the table of strategic resources, you won't do it with this solar foolishness. Try Thorium, molten salt reactors, and videos by Kirk Sorensen and others.
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  83. +enator71 Do homework on Thorium and molten salt reactors, Kirk Sorenson. Your concerns are addressed there.
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  84. +enator71 1) see the video "is nuclear waste really waste" for reprocessing advantages 2) the gamma ray concern you mention is not from natural thorium , but one of the elements in the chain. see more videos to get comfortable with that. 3) the gamma emissions of the intermediate products make Thorium "proliferation resistant" -- "it's easily detectable and it kills you without thick protection," says Kirk Sorensen 4) see the various TED talks for different perspectives on the same issue(s) 5) Thorium us as common as tin; ore scarcity is not an issue; see some more videos to get that part straightened out and also get a correct comparison with uranium: u235 vs u238. Kirk Sorenson: "burning u235 is like burning platinum."
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  85. +enator71 Watch the videos before jumping to conclusions. The benefits outweigh the downsides - the benefits make simple gamma Ray shielding look trivial. They have walk-safety shutdown features that account for the gamma rays. Tidbit: the hotter it is radioactively, the shorter the half-life. Gamma in general is hot, so it's half life is relatively short. Once again, see the Kirk Sirenson, multi-TED videos on this to get depth and perspective on it. Rare Earths is one of those Sierra Club-govt screwups where they hounded American producers out of business because the processes produced s trivially radioactive waste. Anyone care to guess what that trivially radioactive waste was?
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  86. +enator71 Just watch the videos before shooting your mouth off like jerk.
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  87. +Passed High School Physics If NIF is about fusion, may I do my bit to stop those subsidies too: Fusion is a boondoggle with an academic-bureaucrat life of its own. See the Kirk Sorenson videos for a quick takedown of Fusion and its obvious drawbacks. "Thorium is what fusion was supposed to be."
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  88. +enator71 I have, more than you on subject of thorium, and the efforts are wasted on a know-it-all blowhard like you. There's no reason to be bombast-negative about Thorium. Too bad such an opportunity trashed that way.
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  89. +Passed High School Physics Right... Kirk Sorenson videos are excellent and exciting places to start up the learning curve of thorium. In the competitive debating department, it's astonishing that fusion (that's NIF, right?) has gotten a dime of slush money. Kirk destroys it's practicality deftly with a few sentences of the nuclear physics behind it. It's always 10 years away from prime time and it's a boondoggle for university research handouts. Sorry, I don't know what TWRs are, but i heard Kirk dismiss them handily in one of interviews. The real pay-dirt is in Thorium and msr (molten salt reactors)
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  90. +Passed High School Physics I've taken a crack at Terra Power and I'm disappointed. This is Bill Gates' fun in retirement schoolboy science project. Bill is also the one lecturing us on some stupid "carbon neutral formula " he wants to ram down everyone's throat. This is what happens when you you have too much time and money on your hands. Seriously, TWR is just a bunch of cartoons a this point with a Bill-Nye-levels sales pitch. TWS: solid fuel (worse than liquid); a cartoon variation on the breeder reactor (basically tried and failed; see some of Sorenson videos for a compare and contrast of fast neutron reactor basics vs slow neutron ("thermal" i.e. slowed down to ambient temperature by a moderator, so the neutron can sidel up to the nucleus, get absorbed, and cause a fission. (I've been listening to to the UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering videos; great example of YouTube education potential). Back to Traveling Wave Reactors, Kirk Sorenson mentions it in a taxi cab interview in one of his videos and 1, describes it in the high-risk speculative technology that it is, dismisses it accordingly. I've seen the Traveling Wave cartoon and it looks frankly crazy. Some snake oil salesman got to Bill Gates with this one - solid fuel (bad), no visible means of reaction control (good regulatory luck with that), etc. Sorry to disappoint and not enthuse about Traveling Wave, but TWR looks as challenging, high risk, and boondoggle-ish as fusion, i.e. a money losing waste of time compared to Thorium and MSRs (molten salt reactors)
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  91. +Passed High School Physics It's a detail, but how can you say TWR is ready to go when all you see are cartoon interpretations of it on YouTube? Whatever, I recommend investing time in the Kirk Sorensen videos, understanding them as thoroughly as possible, and cross referencing the material with others who are betting their futures on it. Ted and Google talk have and expanding catalog of presenters on this subject, but Kirk Sorensen is the founder of the "Thorium Renaissance" (he understands how to take advantage of YouTube, also to his credit (!)).
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  92. +Passed High School Physics PS, which UC Berkeley course(s) are you watching?
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  93. +Passed High School Physics .... Nuclear Engineering 101 was a "nice review"? Wow... you must have a lot of heavy science and math under your belt. Am not familiar witj the other courses, will check them out eventually.
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  94. +Passed High School Physics Muller takes the climate quack loyalty oath.
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  95. +Passed High School Physics How do you get u235 from coal?
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  96. +Passed High School Physics I'm sure the blood thirsty alarmist quacks can't wait to beat everyone up with that one. I suppose dirt dust has "radioactive isotopes" in them too. I think you're missing the point with... with what ? coal ashes? Are you expecting utilities to sift out u235 from coal ashes?
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  97. +Passed High School Physics You're saying it is economically feasible to recover u235 from coal ash?
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  98. +Passed High School Physics Acghghg.... If you say so. "Do yourself a favor" and spend a few hours among the thorium enthusiast videos. You'll find so many compelling advantages and abundances you'll wish you were a high school kid again looking for a career.
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  99. +Passed High School Physics What is NIF?
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  100. +Passed High School Physics It's a shame it's wasted on you. You should understand the politics behind light water reactors and uranium.
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  101. +Passed High School Physics The only reason TW sees the light of day is b c Bill Gates got sold a foolish snake oil bill of goods on it.
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  102. +Passed High School Physics Like we discussed before, all I see about Traveling Wave Reactors are these 5 minute cartoon presentations. No, other coutries are not "getting into it" because there's no evidence of that. On the other hand, a Thorium search turns up lots of international effort: India China Norway Israel (Embarrassingly absent is the US, but that's changing.)
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  103. +Passed High School Physics Just like governments, rich people can do stupid things. TWR looks like one of those instances where some quack got hold of Bill Gate's ear and he got enamored with it. (just like he got taken in by the global warming crap - that's strike 2 for Bill and his "retirement legacy". He should have stuck to software. )
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  104. +Passed High School Physics Where is it? Show me some links. Yes, I think Bill Gates can be "that stupid" -- people with big egos and lots of money stupid things all the time - his embrace of climate quackery is a prime example. As far as I can see, Bill has nothing to show for his investment in TWR. I looked, and couldn't find. SHOW ME!
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  105. +Passed High School Physics Case closed. (you should apologize for wasting my time): Bill Gates stops chasing nuclear 'wave', pursues variety of reactors His fission company, TerraPower, alters its "traveling wave reactor," explores thorium, liquid fuel and alternative designs.  By Mark Halper | July 24, 2013 -- 05:30  2013 --- got that? http://www.zdnet.com/article/bill-gates-stops-chasing-nuclear-wave-pursues-variety-of-reactors/
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  106. +Passed High School Physics You didn't even read the link. I think we've reached the limit of your reasoning capacity and the usefulness of this conversation.
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  107. +Passed High School Physics Watch the Kirk Sorensen videos (which is obvious you haven't). He deals with the foolishness and money-pit boondoggle of fusion ("NIF"). Otherwise go jerk.
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  108. +Passed High School Physics Watch the Kirk Sorensen videos (which is obvious you haven't). He deals with the foolishness and money-pit boondoggle of fusion ("NIF"). Otherwise go jerk.
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  109. +Passed High School Physics Watch the Kirk Sorensen videos (which is obvious you haven't). He deals with the foolishness and money-pit boondoggle of fusion ("NIF"). Otherwise go jerk.
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  110. +Passed High School Physics I see the trappings of opportunist chinese bureaucracy lining up to scoff some of Bill gate's money. (no other billionaires on board)
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  111. +Passed High School Physics Kirk Sorenson makes the same argument more convincingly for thorium. Jang Jamin's son showed up at oak ridge after downloading all the T material that KS put on his website that was developed in the 50s. Same conclusion, the Chinese are going to get it and leave US in the dust. (the technicals on TWR sound like they are morphing into FLIBE's LFTR)
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  112. +Passed High School Physics I think you're full of shit, and so do an expanding number of professionals in the field, but what you think is pretty much irrelevant.
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  113. What happened to solar-than-thou CNC?
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  114. +Passed High School Physics +CNCmachiningisfun CNC is one of the subset of the solar-than-thou elites for whom "off grid" is a status symbol and hobby, no doubt the envy of the chicks and juvenile climate quacks of Starbucks. I call it the "LOOK MA! NO HANDS" phenom. There's nothing wrong with hobbies, but here it's hitching a ride on a quack science superstition turned dangerous political movement - a bandwagon CNC-types are to ride on, s ready audience to show off their hobby to, but at the same enablers of the quackery, superstition, and hack politics of an evil political movement. They are the climate quackery's version of "radical chic"
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  115. +Passed High School Physics Climate is always changing.
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  116. +Passed High School Physics You're a full of shit climate quack.
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  117. +CNCmachiningisfun You are belittling the achievements you have by endorsing Climate Quackery.
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  118. +Passed High School Physics ??? Meanwhile, you are disappointing you HS physics teacher.
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  119. Solar energy is... 1) A child of climate quackery 2) A Kids Lemonade Stand business 3) A "LOOK MA! NO HANDS" status symbol and hobby. (right CNC?) For an abundant energy future, see the Kirk Sorenson videos on Thorium and MSRs (Molten Salt Reactors).
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  120. +Passed High School Physics who?
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  121. +joshmdmd Does anyone wonder why we're obliged to have these stupid debates in the first place? "Renewables" is just another dimension for the creeps who play the stupid game of politics, to wit: I submit that the reason we're required to engage in these stupid conversations in the first place is because the climate quacks and hustlers can't keep to minding your own business and are trying to impose taxes, hardships, and a conceited sense of superiority on the rest of us. Here are the first principles the climate quacks violate: Power is evil, because of the following golden rule of politics: "Liberty" is a poetic term for property rights. Therefore there are only TWO KINDS OF LAWS: - those that protect property rights, - and those that attack property rights. "Have the government do unto others as you'd have the goverment do unto you."
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  122. +Paul Galkowski NO! Net Metering is Starbucks-elite cost shifting of grid expense to the poor.
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  123. +Yoyo Ma Right Yoyo, These people are like children who believe in Santa clause. They are full of sh*t.
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  124. +Yoyo Ma Right - and it's tax-funded quackery and superstition. Consensus is scientific truth... Correlation is causation.... These are bad and stupid people.
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  125. "Renewables" is just another dimension for the creeps who play the stupid game of politics, to wit: I submit that the reason we're required to engage in these stupid conversations in the first place is because the climate quacks and hustlers can't keep to minding your own business and are trying to impose taxes, hardships, and a conceited sense of superiority on the rest of us. Here are the first principles the climate quacks violate: Power is evil, because of the following golden rule of politics: "Liberty" is a poetic term for property rights. Therefore there are only TWO KINDS OF LAWS: - those that protect property rights, - and those that attack property rights. "Have the government do unto others as you'd have the goverment do unto you."
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  126. , of the nearly $20 billion in alternative energy subsidies deployed over the past eight years for electric cars, rooftop solar and the like, the top income quintile received 60 percent of that money overall, and got 90 percent of EV subsidies. https://www.google.com/search?redir_esc=&client=ms-android-virgin-us&hl=en-US&safe=images&oe=utf-8&q=SolarCity&source=android-browser-type&qsubts=1466911536798#scso=uid_0:0
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  127. Kids Lemonade Stand crap.
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  128. Exacly, Pob. The (ridiculously obvious) problem of intermittency and storage makes "renewables" a childish Kids Lemonade Stand wishful thinking business. Everyone involved should be ashamed of this waste and feelgood quackery.
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  129. +pobembe1958 Right pob. You have idiots on this site saying Britain is a good place for solar. Solar = quack-science Kids Lemonade Stand business.
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  130. , of the nearly $20 billion in alternative energy subsidies deployed over the past eight years for electric cars, rooftop solar and the like, the top income quintile received 60 percent of that money overall, and got 90 percent of EV subsidies. https://www.google.com/search?redir_esc=&client=ms-android-virgin-us&hl=en-US&safe=images&oe=utf-8&q=SolarCity&source=android-browser-type&qsubts=1466911536798#scso=uid_0:0
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  131. Solar Chic is like Radical Chic.
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  132. See the Thorium videos by Kirk Sorenson and others.
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  133. Solar energy is a trivial Kids Lemonade Stand business justified by quack science, tax subsidies, and superstition.
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  134. Burning fossil fuels is GREEN because it adds CO2 which is green plant food and that makes the planet greener.
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  135. Solar energy is... 1) A child of climate quackery 2) A Kids Lemonade Stand business 3) A "LOOK MA! NO HANDS" status symbol and hobby. For an abundant energy future, see the Kirk Sorenson videos on Thorium and MSRs (Molten Salt Reactors).
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  136. For "renewable energy" fiasco, see Germany.
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  137. Did y'all see the good Professor take the loyalty oath to Climate Quackery?
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  138. The fraud of solar should be self evident by what's happening on this blog, to wit: if solar is so great (i.e. cost effective) no one would have to make feel-good infomercials for it. Better products sell themselves. Are cars cost effective? Yes. Nobody nags you about buying cars, but the competing manufacturers are out there trying to win your business and buy Their car. That doesn't happen with solar because it's a subsidized fraud. It doesn't without the subsidy.
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  139. All quiet on the Climate Quack front?
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  140. +Heron Myer Heron... I wouldn't waste your time arguing responsible, adult-supervised economics with CNC. He's one of these guys: DIY solar: LOOK MA! NO HANDS! Are you playing the SOLAR-AS-STATUS-SYMBOL game too? I'm sure that plays well with the Starbucks crowd. This is well-documented behavior: when apes have extra time on their hands, they engage in "improving status" -- now play the ape noises Tim Allen makes. Thorstein Veblin wrote a famous book about this called Theory Of The Leisure Class.
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  141. +CNCmachiningisfun Solar energy is... 1) A child of climate quackery 2) A Kids Lemonade Stand business 3) A "LOOK MA! NO HANDS" status symbol and hobby. For an abundant energy future, see the Kirk Sorenson videos on Thorium and MSRs (Molten Salt Reactors).
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  142. Burning fossil fuels is GREEN because it adds CO2 which is green plant food and that makes the planet greener.
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  143. In addition to being a child of climate quackery, "solar" is a Kids Lemonade Stand business and a LOOK MA! NO HANDS! status symbol hobby.
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  144. Burning fossil fuels is GREEN because it adds CO2 which is green plant food and that makes the planet greener.
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  145. If a small fraction of those idiot-solar subsidies went to Thorium, we'd have it by now.
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  146. +CJ Fuller Cheap shot.
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  147. Yes szaki. The climate quacks and hustlers want to impose hardships on you, reducing you standard of living, imposing misery. Isn't it something what a monstrosity several decades of government controlled education has produced?
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  148. Climate Quacks and Solar Charlatans want to do with energy what Stalin did with agriculture.
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  149. Good points, but this is about science, it's about.... well... Solar energy is... 1) A child of climate quackery 2) A Kids Lemonade Stand business 3) A "LOOK MA! NO HANDS" status symbol and hobby. (right CNC ?) For an abundant energy future, see the Kirk Sorenson videos on Thorium and MSRs (Molten Salt Reactors).
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  150. Solar is a school-boy science project, Kid's Lemonade Stand business.
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  151. +Douglas E Knapp What a load of crap.
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  152. How are the bananas of Climate Quackery tonight?
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  153. +Nic D Thank you, Ron Paul. But he doesn't realize that borders are the all that's left of social freedom for the non-wealthy. politics: "Liberty" is a poetic term for property rights. Therefore there are only TWO KINDS OF LAWS: - those that protect property rights, - and those that attack property rights. "Have the government do unto others as you'd have the goverment do unto you."
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  154. http://www.forbes.com/sites/markpmills/2016/06/25/the-tesla-and-solar-city-merger-is-rooted-in-battery-derangement-syndrome/#7cc771b7df8f
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