The reason why there is so much failures with solar is because oil companies don't want it. Politicians on both sides are bought and paid for by these people.

Solar has been failing because the liberals and their politicians had to get their psyoffs first..

Texas is now leading the way with renewables, Why? .. The evil oil sector is driving it.

The world resource of oil won't last very long.
Better figure something out before oil isn't an option.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/06/28/the-world-was-533-years-of-oil-left/11528999/

We do not need solar...we have all the ingredients here on Earth so that everyone should have unlimited free wireless electricity.

Please expound on the theories. I know it's there. Tesla knew, Ben F knew. Lets get some!

Your ignorance makes you a danger to yourself any anyone else who makes the mistake of listening to you Louie.

These lies you are spreading make me feel ill. I'm full of pity for you, yet the bigger tragedy is that people who can't see any more clearly than this are still allowed to vote. Every time you do, it damages the Republic.

Of course I've heard it all before - You are just parroting an old bs lie that was made up by oil elites like Rex Tillerson to sell to the gullible. I can picture the discussion around that table: "Then we'll tell them there's methane on Titan, and that proves that we'll never run out of oil!" "Um... That doesn't make any sense at all." "Of course not, but remember who we're talking to!" "Ah, right!"


METHANE IS NOT CRUDE OIL, ffs. For starters, methane is a gas at room temperature. It is excreted when you fart. The world's herds of cows produce a tremendous amount, as do termites. Do you have crude oil coming out of your butt too? I hope not!
Methane is an extremely simple compound. Crude is extremely complex. You can not make crude out of methane.

The crude oil we are burning at an astounding rate is ancient. No, wells aren't refilling with new oil just as fast as we can pump them out. That is why wells and fields deplete.

Years ago some scientists pointed out something obvious if you give it a little rational thought. As we pump and burn oil at a tremendous rate while very little new oil is naturally produced, the amount remaining gets less and less. Of course God left us with a lot of the stuff... But the human race is very good at destroying natural things. We'll get through it. Not all at once of course, but gradually. The easiest to access first, like the Saudi reserves. Then the less accessible stuff - Deepwater, tar sands, shale... Inventing new technologies to access crude we couldn't get at a couple of decades ago, but the fact remains that the oil was there, and then it isn't because we have taken it and burned it, more and more every day.

Sooner or later we will hit a point where oil supply peaks. The $10 oil will be gone, and the $45 oil, and the $90 oil. We'll be doing crazy stuff to get it from the ocean deeps or the antarctic, but it will be very hard and expensive, and people like you won't be able to afford it.

Now there's two paths - Two ways to get there. Either we keep using more and more oil (increasing demand) until we can no longer supply the demand. In that case it will be like hitting a wall when the shortage is upon us. Resource wars, famine and starvation because of lack of gasoline for food production, riots, and probably the end of our civilization as we know it.

More recently, thanks to liberals and scientists, there's a new possibility. We may grow out of our addiction to oil, and replace it with better, cleaner, cheaper and more sustainable forms of energy. Thanks to a tremendous amount of research in the past few years, solar and wind power have become nearly as inexpensive as fossil fuels. So rather than demand outstripping supply one day, maybe demand will drop off so that supply peaks and then drops from lack of need.

Solar is a good supplemental source of energy but on a large scale it is too costly. Not only the high cost but the vast amounts of real estate it takes to build a solar site for commercial use.

Lobo, there are no farting cows on Saturn or termites either (a termite would be crushed under its own weight by the tremendous gravity on the surface of Saturn), so you cannot account for the presence of methane that way. Lobo, we can see what’s in the atmosphere of Saturn, but we cannot see what is under the surface of Saturn, but are you assuring everybody that there is NO, ZERO, ZILCH, crude oil under the surface of Saturn. How do you know that? By the way, there are no dinosaurs running around up there either. But since heat from the core of the Earth can make crude oil from certain rocks,you can't just assume that there is no crude oil on Saturn simply because there are no dinosaurs up there. That's an assumption and nothing more than an assumption.

Solar for electrical power production is not practical when you can only directly convert one fifth of the solar energy to electricity, except, of course, for snitch applications where power must be supplied in remote locations, including locations on highways where power from the grid is not handy.

Solar, if concentrated by lenses, can be converted to heat with much higher efficiency, and can even be converted to mechanical power with higher efficiency using sterling engines or whatever. The Israelis are even using concentrated solar to break water down with heat into hydrogen and oxygen gas that can be stored and burned later for energy.

With Solar for direct conversion to electrical power, the inverters, and if not fed back directly into the grid as storage, batteries to store the energy. A guy experienced with inverters and class D amplifiers, you know, switching mode devices, says that inverters and class D amplifiers have an average life time of seven years. And that would have to be factored into the cost of a solar system.