Not investment advice 1

According to the DOE (see this excellent powerpoint [PDF] by the DOE Solar America program), U.S. electricity demand will grow by 386 terrawatt hours by 2015.

According to the EPA, those new electrons won't come from coal. And there's no way nukes could come on-line fast enough, even if they got their way.

Where are those electrons going to come from?

I don't give investment advice. But those electrons have to come from somewhere. And solar stocks are at an all-time low. I'm just saying.

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  1. Biodiversivist's avatar

    Biodiversivist Posted 12:11 pm
    15 Nov 2008

    Good pointSeems to me that if you have enough solar powered homes and buildings, that coal plants will be replaced with smaller more dispersed natural gas plants that can come on line quickly to handle sunless days and evenings. Central power plants may be generating a lot less electricity in the future if solar panels on buildings become common.
    The goal is not just to to replace existing centralized power plants with solar and wind equivalents, but to reduce the power centralized plants will generate, or so it seems to me.

    In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

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