Comments on A Solar Grand Plan: Scientific American

• A Solar Grand Plan: Scientific American
• By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions. Read on!
  

  The federal government would have to invest more than $400 billion over the next 40 years to complete the 2050 plan. That investment is substantial, but the payoff is greater. Solar plants consume little or no fuel, saving billions of dollars year after year. The inf…

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  It’s amazing to me how many diggers just take this projection as gospel.

  But if Obama wants to sink hundreds of billions into this, that’s reason 5487 not to vote for him. The Constitution does not grant Congress the authority to spend my tax dollars on these types of things. (and yes, I know Bush spends trillions on things the Constitution doesn’t authorize, either)

  Great, I’ll be almost 70 when this happens, wayyy too fucking late too enjoy it.

  I just don’t see it, the cost of solar panels really needs to come down. For instance, figure up how much voltage your computer uses, look at the price of solar panels and how long it will take before they pay for themselves. You will realize quick that its expensive, and your looking at 8 to 10 years before its finally “free” energy. I want this to happen but i just don’t think we have the technology yet.

  We could do this by 2025….Get your asses in gear engineers and politicians! We can convert South Dakota to “New Solar Cell”…Think how much cooler Mt Rushmore would be if it were shiny and powered Manhattan!

  We really should be spending the money that has been allocated on the economic stimulus packages on a project like this.

  That would result in true economic independence in reducing the need for foreign oil and coal plants for heating. Rather than supplying a tangential and fleeting 600 bucks to every person. Let’s use the great wealth of united states to transform the countries economy, while pumping money into into the hands of the workers who would build the structure and into the coffers of the companies that would innovate for it. That is akin to the great works that America was able to build during the New Deal during FDR’s time: the great turnpikes. Let’s fix the economic downturns through revolutionary expenditure rather than the short shot in the arm that the economic stimulus provides.

  I thought we already were.

  /google

  By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions.

  power

  “By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions”

  By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions

  how you like dem apples

  The money isn’t the problem. Why should the government pick the technology of the future? Subsidizing it to make it cost-competitive means that no other alternatives will succeed.

  Yeah, and we all know that when solar advocates say solar will be cheap, it must be true. Fanboys never oversell their favourite technology. And solar power fanboys are by far the most honest, as proven by their record stretching back decades.

  Where would the panels be placed? I’d suggest you install them in toilets, everybody knows the sun shines out of Americans arses.

  The cost of entirely replacing the USA’s generating capacity would amount to no more than 2 trillion. These fuckers want a fifth of that just as subsidies. AND they’re lowballing it. Absurdly too since they’re lying through their teeth.

  Yeah but it IS a fact that AC is better than DC for long ranges. If it wasn’t, why would all long range power transmission be done with AC?

  I’m afraid you’ll just invade other countries to get minerals and copper for solar panels. Mark my words.