Are we to believe that “Burgum” on Fox Business is unaware that millions of people all around the world have perfectly reliable power using only solar energy? This is just one more lie told to an ignorant audience.
Category: Photovoltaics
Solar and Wind Are Intermittent Resources — More
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True, Solar and Wind Are Intermittent Resources
Many of us can remember the early days of renewable energy, and our concern that resources like solar and wind were intermittent. Could such energy sources offer value even though they are not “baseload?” Well, thirty years later grid operators …
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Solar PV “Breakthrough?”
If I were to ask 100 high school kids about what they know about solar PV and about this “breakthrough,” many of them would say, “Look, a photon either hits the array and dislodges an electron, or it passed through …
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Switzerland Pilots Solar PV Between Train Track Rails
The meme here is misleading; this is a pilot program in a very small part of Switzerland. As much as I favor solar, and siting in clever new ways, I’ll bet this effort fails, due to the crushing vibrations caused …
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Is Solar PV Replacing Farmland?
It pains me to think that I live among Americans who are this stupid. This country has 880 million acres of farmland, and 34,000 acres of solar PV. That’s a ratio of 26K:1. In addition, farmland doesn’t need to be …
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Solar PV in Belgium
Utility-scale solar is a good thing, but a 20-MW array isn’t going to serve 40,000 homes. That’s 500 Watts/home, where the standard rooftop installation is 6 – 8 KWs.
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Solar, Wind, and Trees
To the reader who sent me these memes here: Are you trying to tell me there is a single person stupid enough to believe we’re cutting down trees to make room for solar and wind?
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Converting Moonlight into Electrical Energy
There are no laws of science that you can’t convert moonlight into electrical energy, though there is a set of laws (called physics) that will render this incredibly unproductive. The moon produces a very small amount of power per square …
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No, Japan Is Not Working on Beaming Solar Energy Down from PV in Orbit Around the Earth
This isn’t physically impossible, but it’s extremely impractical. I strongly doubt any serious person or group is wasting time on this.
Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV)
I happened to run into a rep for a large manufacturer of roofing materials earlier today, which gave me the opportunity to ask him about building-integrated photovoltaics. (“It isn’t on the roof; it is the roof.”) I told him that …
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