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6. Well, at least after 50 years of making "could" statements, the numbers have gotten slightly more...
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 04:24 PM
Oct 2016

...realistic. I can't believe after 50 years of total bullshit where the failed, toxic and useless solar industry describes itself in terms of peak capacity, that someone in this scam as suddenly released a "solar could" statement using units of energy, specifically TWh, as in it "could" produce 800 of these.

That translates into about three exajoules of energy, or about 91,000 watts of average continuous power, or about 3% of US energy demand annually. The solar industry has never, not once, in 50 years of cheering, ever produced one third of that.

To describe the failed, expensive, and useless solar industry in terms of average continuous power is absurd, though, since the solar industry is not and never will be continuous. Every solar plant on this planet is backed up by a redundant power plant, almost always a gas plant.

The solar industry and the fossil fuel industry depend on one another, the former to mask its unreliability and hidden costs, and the latter to serve as lipstick on the pig.

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