China breaking all solar power records, aiming for 50GW in 2017

Friend: Per the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, sunlight is the most abundant source of potential energy on the planet. If harnessed properly, sunlight could easily exceed current and future electricity demand. According to the Department of Energy, every hour, enough energy from the sun reaches Earth to meet the world’s energy usage for an entire year.

Craig: Yes. We get 6000 times more power from the sun than all seven billion of us use.

Friend: It appears that we get even more than that, according to the DOE — 8,760 vs. 6000. What’s the source of your 6,000 figure?

Craig: Gosh, I don’t remember; I’ve been using that number for years. It’s the enormous total power of the sun times the infinitessimally small fraction that the Earth occupies in the surface area of a sphere 93 million miles in radius.

In any case, the real point, obviously, is that it’s a ton more than we need; the challenge incumbent on us is to harvest it cost-effectively — and we’re very close. Btw, that’s what blows my mind about the effectiveness of the PR hatchet-job that the entrenched interests have done to create renewable energy naysayers. There are tens of millions of Americans who completely scorn the concept of solar and wind, on the basis that they are told it’s outrageously expensive. It’s not. We’re very close to grid-parity. With a little effort, we’ll be there soon. Even without that effort, we’ll get there eventually. The question is how long the fossil fuels and nuclear people will continue to dominate the landscape, and how much damage we will have done to our home planet in the process.

How Much Energy Does the Earth Receive From the Sun? | 2GreenEnergy.com

The only kind of facts that Silly Billy understands are the stinky kind he pulls out of his ass.
 
And you beam that power down, how? Microwave? If your beam wanders off target, you cook a lot of landscape. And sounds very expensive compared to putting thin film on existing roofs, such as malls, warehouses, and commercial buildings. Little transmission loss when the source is within a few miles of the use.
 
And you beam that power down, how? Microwave? If your beam wanders off target, you cook a lot of landscape. And sounds very expensive compared to putting thin film on existing roofs, such as malls, warehouses, and commercial buildings. Little transmission loss when the source is within a few miles of the use.

And you beam that power down, how? Microwave?

Yes.

If your beam wanders off target, you cook a lot of landscape.

No.

And sounds very expensive compared to putting thin film on existing roofs, such as malls, warehouses, and commercial buildings.

You mean the stuff that gets dirty, oxidized, covered with snow, damaged, replaced every 20 years or sooner?
 
The guarantee for most solar panels is 20 to 25 years. Not that it will produce energy for that long, but that it will produce more than 80% of it's original rated power at that point. For most that have reached that point, the power is still in the 90% range of the original rating. Oxidized? Dirty, yes, but then one X class solar flare and you satellite is dead. And dirty is very easy to solve. You pay someone to clean them. Damaged? Possibly where they have a lot of hail storms.
 
The guarantee for most solar panels is 20 to 25 years. Not that it will produce energy for that long, but that it will produce more than 80% of it's original rated power at that point. For most that have reached that point, the power is still in the 90% range of the original rating. Oxidized? Dirty, yes, but then one X class solar flare and you satellite is dead. And dirty is very easy to solve. You pay someone to clean them. Damaged? Possibly where they have a lot of hail storms.

Not that it will produce energy for that long, but that it will produce more than 80% of it's original rated power at that point

So that's 1/3rd of 80%.........
 
Not that it will produce energy for that long, but that it will produce more than 80% of it's original rated power at that point

Add the 23% capacity factor and we are talking a tiny fraction of electricity that Solar claims it can produce.
 
The guarantee for most solar panels is 20 to 25 years. Not that it will produce energy for that long, but that it will produce more than 80% of it's original rated power at that point. For most that have reached that point, the power is still in the 90% range of the original rating. Oxidized? Dirty, yes, but then one X class solar flare and you satellite is dead. And dirty is very easy to solve. You pay someone to clean them. Damaged? Possibly where they have a lot of hail storms.

Not that it will produce energy for that long, but that it will produce more than 80% of it's original rated power at that point

So that's 1/3rd of 80%.........
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