SolyndraGatePocalypse

Green technology is on the hot seat these days after the bankruptcy of Solyndra. Is alternative energy a bad bet and a drain on taxpayers? Find out in this Mark Fiore animation!

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[dangerouslytalented]

The story of Solyndra: A corporation that builds solar panels goes out of business because the solar panels of OTHER manufacturers have gotten far cheaper and more efficient. And the Far Right say that because of this all solar power should be defunded. Way to spin success!

[dangerouslytalented]

@AnnoyedDragon Actually, both solar AND wind provide energy EXACTLY WHEN NEEDED. During the hottest, brightest days, solar runs at peak efficiency, just in time for the surge in use for airconditioners, and during stormy and windy days, you get the wind power running at peak efficiency, right when everybody is staying home.

[cyborganic99]

I can't believe how the republican party jumps on every little hiccup on the investments in alternative energies and choose to ignore larger less efficent expenditures like the wall street bailouts 13,000,000,000,000 > 500,000.000. Even in venture capitalism there are failures. but the successful venture more than make up for the failed ones.

[stormweaver82]

@LiberalJerseyman its not about how are government doesn't know, its lobbyist pay them not to think for themselves

[LiberalJerseyman]

Man this is spot-on. The fact that the people who make up our government don't know things like this frightens me.

[g4macdad]

Not voting at all, is exactly the purpose of ridiculous GOP propaganda. You lose, they win.

[modelmark]

@g4macdad they are all bad including 'progressive' candidates. I don't vote at all, it just encourages the bastards. Voting is an auction of goods to be stolen and a suggestion box for slaves. It's an idiotic ritual, that will feel sillier and sillier after more change changes nothing and more referenda are completely ignored.

If politicians were interested in what you want, they would leave you alone and look what you did. They force you, they don't care about you.

[g4macdad]

@modelmark

You should not speak so harshly about the GOP. They are not ALL bad; just 90% of them.

That is why I typically vote for the most progressive candidates.

[modelmark]

@g4macdad You can only say about individual people if they are good or bad. If they live by coercion and extortion, they are bad. All people are private people. It can be said that gvt is according to their own rules, funded by extortion and coercion and companies are supposed not to be and operate with voluntary acquired capital, employees and customers.

[g4macdad]

@modelmark

Then you are saying private industry is bad?

[canaanav]

@g4macdad Put the computer away. You're not even talking about the same issue. You're being an idiot and making no point.

[modelmark]

Flagship UK carbon capture project 'close to collapse'. Scottish Power expected to pull out of government-promoted scheme to build a £1bn prototype CCS plant at Longannet. A £1bn flagship government project for fighting climate change – the construction of a prototype carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at Longannet in Scotland – is on the verge of collapse, it emerged on Thursday.

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