I thought solar was the wave of the future? 73 bankrupt companies

Thanks Obama.

When your business model is set up around government funds, it's hard to stay in business when the corruptio...err...programs are defunded

How many acres of solar panels would be required to generate enough energy to match the US energy consumption?

I’ve been helping the step daughter with her science fair project which is going to run off solar power. From my personal experience, solar has its place in smaller, stand alone applications, but it is going to continue to be a miserable failure in terms of a residential power source. For starters it’s just too damn expensive and bulky. The physical footprint leaves it undesirable and the amount of money you have to pour into charge controllers, inverters and battery banks is just insane and that doesn’t even take into account the cost of the panels.

A lot less of actual land-acreage if you include building rooftops/walls/etc. and subtract energy thats exported

My number 1 rule when buying stocks:

If it requires govt subsidy I'm not interested.

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but it is going to continue to be a miserable failure in terms of a residential power source. For starters it’s just too damn expensive and bulky. The physical footprint leaves it undesirable and the amount of money you have to pour into charge controllers, inverters and battery banks is just insane and that doesn’t even take into account the cost of the panels.

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That^

An innovation isn't an innovation unless it's economically feasible to the larger population. Solar is a grade A example of how progressive policy gets in the way of progress. By misallocating that amount of capital to a non-viable technology they are worsening the problem and delaying investments into technologies that would actually work. Governments should have 0 role in fighting climate change.

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An innovation isn't an innovation unless it's economically feasible to the larger population.

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I certainly don't disagree with that.

I don't think solar will ever be the 100% solution, unless the efficiency undergoes a revolution AND we solve the battery/storage problem - then maybe. I mean, the Sun is essentially 100% of the source of our power - for lack of a better expression, fossil fuels are "stored" sunshine (almost like an intelligent designer thought ahead for this very situation).

Another path that may just solve a large part of this (a high efficiency, effectively renewable, long-term, uninterruptible power source that is reliable under all conditions) - and I'm talking about fusion power, here. But, I don't know if in the short and intermediate term if fusion isn't any less of a fantasy than "solar and wind" that utterly ignorant progressives and AGW cultists spout as if we merely have to say it to achieve it.

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Governments should have 0 role in fighting climate change.

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That ship has, unfortunately, sailed. Similar to the War on Drugs(tm), this is seen as a future "growth sector" for government power, control, influence, and this bizarre marriage of the green movement and government in this endeavor should terrify any right-thinking individual.

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I don’t know, but Florida Power & Light is trying to find out.

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look at our larger business model... NextEra Energy. i work at one of our 140mw sites not in florida and we make a profit.