Economic growth? As compared to what? What is the percent to total of all power generation?

The chart is puzzling. Who is the "rest of world". All that is known is that it isn't Europe, the U.S., or Japan. Is it Elbonia?

Wow! The accountant is back to insinuate us some more great junk science. Tell us, 9, is the work you do paid for by government contracts (Oak Ridge, Medicare or the like)?

If the global warming industry is a growth "economy" it is so only to the extent governments tax corporations and citiizens in order to subsidize clean energy.

At this point the so-called clean energy "economy" is pure non-profit; it is a social policy not an economy.

That's not to say it is bad social policy just do not try peddling the notion that clean energy is economically viable - at least not yet.
And then there are the harmful clean energy schemes like using food stuffs and feed corn to produce fuel for cars - even the UN calls this a crime against humanity. (I call it a pay off to lobbiests and corporate welfare)
Then there's the cap and tax plan to gind the imporvished into despair and crush the middle class while enriching the fat cat corporate lords and profiteers like Al Gore.

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...you can't integrate them into the power grid on a large scale without increase our carbon footprint (can you say gas fired turbine power plants that spin up fast to make up the power needs when the sun plays peak-a-boo or we hit the dolldrums)

How does replacing the burning of coal with solar power and natural gas backup increase carbon emissions?

"How many places can use either method?"

There's a shortage of air in Farragut?

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The reason conservatives are being programmed by Rush and O'Reilly and those guys to hate solar is because it can be decentralized. This makes the central planning politburo nervous.

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I would rather have had the $400 billion that is needed in the above plan invested in solar power generation than was wasted by our President and Congress on their porkulous packages. At least it would have created some jobs. It would have been very expensive job creation, but at least there would be something to show for it.

But you can't have your cake and eat it too. Building a direct-current (DC) transmission backbone would be incredibly costly. Integrating green energy into the AC grid we have now is very difficult and costly. It's about priorities. It's about cost benefit. It is about net benefit. As long as team progressive refuses to hold Obama accountable, solar is pie in the sky. Your solar wishes went to government pork. Call the President and let him know how you feel.

As long as team Gaia uses Global Warming fears to sell solar, solar is dead. You need some marketing people. You want us to believe. And your pitch is to scare people? Good luck.

You all cannot hear how you sound. It is so radical and so alarmist. People are worried the government is going to tax them to insolvency. Your plans all have trillion dollar price tags. Figure out what you want. You can't have government health care, social redistribution of wealth, and green energy. Of those choices, I would pick green energy. The problem is you want more than we have money for.

I'd take solar over wind any day. Even with the warts solar has. But today, can any of you show how "green" energy really pays for itself without taxes as the major fuel source? Is it green because that is the color of tax dollars?

The federal government would have to invest more than $400 billion over the next 40 years to complete the 2050 plan. That investment is substantial, but the payoff is greater. Solar plants consume little or no fuel, saving billions of dollars year after year. The infrastructure would displace 300 large coal-fired power plants and 300 more large natural gas plants and all the fuels they consume. The plan would effectively eliminate all imported oil, fundamentally cutting U.S. trade deficits and easing political tension in the Middle East and elsewhere. Because solar technologies are almost pollution-free, the plan would also reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants by 1.7 billion tons a year, and another 1.9 billion tons from gasoline vehicles would be displaced by plug-in hybrids refueled by the solar power grid.

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