[ExI] solargate

[Dennis May]

A few years ago [another site] we discussed the labor 
required to maintain solar and wind energy [highly 
dispersed systems] if they were to actually gain more 
than a niche hold in the energy market.  The number 
of broken necks falling off roofs for solar and the huge 
maintenance overhead for wind would require an 
amazing shift in labor resources and training.
 
Large powerplants have maintenance issues like a
normal factory.  Solar and wind will be more like
everyone going back to the days of raising their 
own food and pumping their own water.  There will
be real lifestyle changes required and labor diverted
from more productive enterprises.  Expect power
interruptions, long waits for service calls if you can't
do the work yourself and increased prices.
 
Dennis May

From: john clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [ExI] solargate

Two years ago in 2009 just before the government invested inSolyndra they received a report from the Energy Department warning that even if the company got the loan guarantee from the government they wanted Solyndra would run out of money in September 2011. They went ahead and gave them the money, our money, anyway. 

Now for something completely different, in China about 500 people demonstrated in front of a factory protesting the factory's pollution. The pollution must have been really horrible because it takes a certain amount of courage to participate in a demonstration of that sort in China. Incidentally the plant made solar panels.    

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/world/asia/china-shuts-solar-panel-factory-after-anti-pollution-protests.html

  John K Clark


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