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Take A Close Look - What's Wrong With This Picture?

9/27/2011

6 Comments

 
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Gasoline has a much higher watt-density than sunlight, which is why they're using a gas generator here, instead of solar panels.  A picture is worth a thousand words.

The problem should be obvious to anyone, and funny too, if only it wasn't so sad.


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childofww2
9/27/2011 06:41:47 am

Lo. I'm a dim bulb, I was sure the answer was going to be lack of sunshine.....

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Country Gal
9/27/2011 07:52:11 pm

Your bulb's nowhere as dim as this solar-power failure/generator-dependent sign, ha! Solar and wind are so incredibly inefficient they can only "make it" (if you can call it "making it") on huge subsidy. THAT rates as innovation? The proponents want an energy descent - and they're fleecing us as they drag us down these rabbit holes. Solyndra was a scandal; looks like a long queue for more crony deals:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=349101#ixzz1ZAkh93HE

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maxim
9/30/2011 02:51:28 am

Sustainability = Agenda 21. This comes right from the U.N's own website

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MissOdie
9/30/2011 03:37:57 am

Any physicist knows that the technology for replacement of fossil fuels w/renewable's is unsustainable economically. With this information so readily available to them, we must ask ourselves, "Why?"

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Anti-Kakistocrat link
10/2/2011 08:58:45 am

Childofww2,

Lack of sunshine is also a problem. Sometimes you need energy when the sun isn't shining, and storing sunshine is harder than storing gasoline.

I'm not being deliberately obtuse here -- sure you can store it in batteries. But batteries are also problematic, which is why we still don't have really practical electric vehicles even after 100 years of trying.

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visit the site link
8/7/2013 05:10:18 pm

That was a funny picture. But it reminds us of a sad truth. We do not act as we say. Using gasoline to show a billboard about solar energy is such an oxymoron. Thanks for posting this picture. It will spread a good message.

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