Eight Points About the Solar Industry

[Jason M. Hendler]

Eight Points About the Solar Industry

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[Texas]

Originally Posted by Jason M. Hendler

Eight Points About the Solar Industry

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Jason, finally we see eye-to-eye on Germany's solar strategy! OK, I'm guessing you maybe didn't read the article past the First Solar points but your headline reads, "Eight Points About the Solar Industry" so perhaps you agree with the author's number one point:

" Germany has horrid solar generation conditions, averaging only four sun-hours per day. So yes, it is not going to displace other traditional forms of energy generation. But be careful to state it has failed, because that was never the point. Germany made a strategic move in investing a lot of capital in solar energy generation - to attain industry leadership. Germany now possesses the intellectual property and the manufacturing and export capacity that is expected to make it one of the three dominant global players in an industry that will be worth tens of billion dollars a year. Even today, it already has over 50,000 employees in the solar industry."

Congratulations Jason! It’s about time.

[Jason M. Hendler]

Texas,

Germany has capacity for a fading solar tech, so we will see their star dimming. All those unfortunate German citizens forced to pay Feed In Tariffs for an obsolete technology. That's tragic.

[Texas]

Originally Posted by Jason M. Hendler

Texas,

Germany has capacity for a fading solar tech, so we will see their star dimming. All those unfortunate German citizens forced to pay Feed In Tariffs for an obsolete technology. That's tragic.

Nope, you still don't get it or agree with the reference you posted. Don't worry, their investment will more than pay for itself.

Do you think investments in new major industries are always smooth and in the perfect path that leads to the final products and services? Heck no!

[rvd]

Originally Posted by Texas

Don't worry, their investment will more than pay for itself.

Foolish "investments" have to find more idiots to get paid off.
But you might be right - there are plenty of them around. Clueless trendsetters and downright fraudsters in the internet age are "blogging" and "buzzing" about the "next BIG thing" do acquire naive followers on the cheap.

[zhackwyatt]

I can't wait until my Solar System is installed (hopefully by this month).

[OPEC SUCKS]

If you go back on this bulletin board and research this.........
You will find that, according to these same posters, Germany bought almost all our solar capacity. They didn't invent anything. They bought all of the USA output product. So much so that these same posters were saying, "just wait until the German buying spree is over. Then we get ours."

Now, what exactly are you saying Texas ?

That Germany can produce solar thin film or any other junk cheaper and more efficiently than China ? Solar Jihad run amok. Pull the pin Texas, it's over. Buy some tickets for this one folks.

You also said in this past, in a response to my first post on this buletin board, that solar is viable and economicly feasible in northern latitudes. Because I said that people in Minnesota would freeze their ass off if left to solar power in January. Now you are saying what ? What is it ? Let me hear it from you, sweet sunshine.

"so perhaps you agree with the author's number one point:"

"Germany has horrid solar generation conditions, averaging only four sun-hours per day. So yes, it is not going to displace other traditional forms of energy generation."

Thats exactly what I said about Minnesota, and you went on a blistering pustule of a rant, and now you are conceding that it's all about the technology after all. It really wont work out after all. For the average German to get his electric bill. I would say that means you are, well, what do you Texicans call it ??

[Texas]

Originally Posted by OPEC SUCKS

If you go back on this bulletin board and research this.........
You will find that, according to these same posters, Germany bought almost all our solar capacity. They didn't invent anything. They bought all of the USA output product. So much so that these same posters were saying, "just wait until the German buying spree is over. Then we get ours."

Now, what exactly are you saying Texas ?

That Germany can produce solar thin film or any other junk cheaper and more efficiently than China ? Solar Jihad run amok. Pull the pin Texas, it's over. Buy some tickets for this one folks.

You also said in this past, in a response to my first post on this buletin board, that solar is viable and economicly feasible in northern latitudes. Because I said that people in Minnesota would freeze their ass off if left to solar power in January. Now you are saying what ? What is it ? Let me hear it from you, sweet sunshine.

"so perhaps you agree with the author's number one point:"

"Germany has horrid solar generation conditions, averaging only four sun-hours per day. So yes, it is not going to displace other traditional forms of energy generation."

Thats exactly what I said about Minnesota, and you went on a blistering pustule of a rant, and now you are conceding that it's all about the technology after all. It really wont work out after all. For the average German to get his electric bill. I would say that means you are, well, what do you Texicans call it ??

OPEC SUCKS, why do you post misinformation that can be debunked in 2 minutes using Google? Here, check out German solar businesses:

http://energy.sourceguides.com/busin...olarType.shtml

Do you seriously think a solar industry is just who makes the cells? lol. How can you be so ignorant when you have been debating this topic for so long? Did you ever hear about system integration, system design, network infrastructure software development, control systems, electrical infrastructure, etc.?

Are you so dense as to not accept the fact that Germany is a leader in the global solar industry? Please, just Google - German solar industry - and read up on it. It’s not a global secret, even if you are clueless.

Another thing you don’t understand is that the solar market is a global market and it’s going to be a huge money maker. Yeah, maybe Alaska won’t use much solar energy because other options make more sense but does that negate the significance of solar energy? If you think that, you are foolish.

You even ask the silly question if we can power the U.S. only on solar power. Of course we can! That’s not the point. The point is using the most cost effective solutions based on many factors including demand, policy, capital, time, competing options, political pressure, etc. How can you deny that there is more than enough solar energy to power the world far beyond our current energy levels. This is fact, OPEC SUCKS, not open for debate. Can and should are two different words. Please look them up.

Then again, never mind. You never learn and never will.