re: Getting solar panels today!!

I agree with everything Teddy said. Solar does suck. How can you defend something that is not economically feasible without HUGE subsidies. Solar cant compete with regular, open market electricity. I don't care if someone wants to feel good about solar and install it on there own property but don't make taxpayers pay for it. I too see nothing wrong with building another power plant. Good American jobs. I dont know the exact figures but i cant think of power plants using oil. I know more are going to Nat Gas. Why use Chinese built solar panels. Solar panels are a feel good thing that are a "California" like idea. California is a train wreck. In debt, high taxes, etc. not sustainable. I bet electricity is expensive in Hawaii. But you chose to live there.

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You sure about that? Willing to wager that nobody does?

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Yep
maybe indirectly, but sure as shite not directly. Maybe b/c diesel comes from oil, and we sometimes use diesel generators as backups at times, which is an enormous waste of money, but it's a backup system, and a rare one at that.

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Solar sucks if you ask me.


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The technology behind it sucks.

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If it was so great, than we should have solar panels just lined up in the barren parts of this country sucking in free energy, but we don't, b/c it's expensive, not efficient, and it sucks.

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Can't completely laugh you off screen for this part, but battery tech has come quite a ways. But why waste time telling a know it all like you?

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Oh it has? how come i can't have a phone that last more than 24 hours.
Why can't we come anymore close to understanding how to store energy?
Until we come out with a new technology to store energy, we will be in the stone age when it comes to battery tech. We've done little to nothing in two years compared to where we need to be.

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Also I see nothing negative about a new power plant being built.

Of course you don't.

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So you have an argument to what i said?
So an area needs more power support and you think the idea of building a new power plant is bad? what's your alternative? Are you upset about the pollution that flys out the smokestacks at these big plants? Just an fyi if you didn't know, it's usually steam you see billowing out, not pollution.