<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:02 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The unemployed can supply lower cost labor<br>
than they were before when more people were employed.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unless there is an unreasonably high minimum wage. Then more will just be automated.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I can see myself doing something like that; we<br>
could have some fun with it. Yes it will cost money. If we have a<br>
believable plan that pencils out, investors will come.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>But solar isn't yet economically viable for most applications. You have to have government subsidies to get it going at this point most of the time. I know you don't want that Spike.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sheesh they are doing this in GERMANY! </blockquote><div><br></div><div>The government over there is doing it. Or rather paying for it.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We yanks have more rooftop area per<br>
capita and way more sun than they do, and they can supply a cost model.<br>
They have the PV factories, so we hire the kraut engineers over here to help<br>
build our PV factories using our cheap labor.<br>
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We can go from a discontented idler society to one in which most people are<br>
cheerfully working their asses off most of the time.<br>
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This is what we mean by Practical Optimism.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think a better plan is to open up more areas for energy exploration. Just a thought. It's working in North Dakota and parts of Texas.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div><div> </div></div></div></div>