RE: How will air travel work in a green solar economy?

Sat, 12 Jul 2014 10:34:31 -0700 

 

 

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Clark

 

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:12 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List 
<[email protected]> wrote:

 

> Desalinization works commercially, or does it? 

 

What you need to make a desalination plant successful is exactly the same thing 
you need to cure world poverty in general, lots and lots of cheap energy. As 
Bill Gates said:

"If you gave me only one wish for the next 50 years,I can pick who is 
president, I can pick a vaccine...  or I can pick that a energy technology that 
works at half the cost with no CO2 emissions I would pick the energy 
technology". That is the one with the greatest impact." 

So anybody who really wants to stop global warming needs to know that you're 
NEVER going to convince the developing world, that is to say the majority of 
the world, to switch over to a new energy technology UNLESS it is cheaper than 
anything we have today. Right now the cheapest energy technology is coal and it 
is also the dirtiest; I think that LFTR's have the potential to generate energy 
at a cost that is less than what coal can, I don't think solar has a snowball's 
chance in hell of doing so because of its fundamental nature,  it's just too 
dilute and unreliable.  

  John K Clark

 

John, naturally, you are entitled to your opinions, however they do not seem to 
be supported by statistics, and not just in other markets such as Germany, 
Italy and China, but also in the US electric energy market as well. Below are a 
few bullet points, with values (for the US market)  that quite clearly 
contradict your assertion that “solar [does not] have a snowball’s chance in 
hell”. Statistics from: 
http://www.seia.org/research-resources/solar-industry-data

·         U.S. PV market installed 4,751 additional megawatts of new solar PV 
capacity in 2013. This is the largest year on record.

·         Solar accounted for 29 percent of all new electricity generation 
capacity added in 2013, up from just 10 percent in 2012, which made solar the 
second largest source of new electricity generating capacity behind natural gas.

·         Year-over-year, the national average PV installed system price 
declined by 15% to $2.59/W in Q4.

·         Close to 6,000 MW of PV are forecasted to come online throughout 
2014, which represents 26% growth over 2013's record installation totals.

 

The above numbers paint a very different picture from the one you insist must 
be so. Welcome to the Solar Age John; in time you will adapt.

Chris

 

 

 

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