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NNadir

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3. The solar industry blames everyone but itself for its grotesque, toxic, and expensive failure.
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 11:43 PM
Oct 2015

It soaked up nearly a trillion dollars in the last decade and doesn't produce even two of the 560 exajoules that humanity consumes each year.

In fact, if you look at it, the solar industry is nothing more than a fig leaf for the gas industry. Without gas, without fracking, the solar industry would die its deserved death in a New York minute.

Yet it whines and whines and whines and whines, demands more and more money, this on a planet where 2 billion people lack basic sanitation and clean water.

The solar industry is a failure. It's not clean. It's not sustainable.

No one, absolutely no one, except maybe future generations who will have to live with all the electronic waste it leaves behind, should be afraid of it, because it doesn't produce. Period.

Have a great weekend.

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