Imagine every home in the United States running of solar power. When it becomes cost effective you will have FREE electricity running your castle. I think the sun is good for about another 5 billion years but as for fossil fuels, well I can guess that they are running out and are non renewable.

I don’t think the earth has suffered terribly from burning fossil fuels as Al Gore would have us believe while he preaches gloom and doom as he burns jet fuel and pumps carbon into the air on his private jet rides around the USA. When Mount Etna erupts in Sicily, millions of tons of “bad stuff” is pumped into air. More than any car ever driven in one eruption. So its a good assumption to say the Earth is able to recover from our fossil fuel consumption.

The issue is economic not environmental. As a good capitalist Republican I look at the issue a little differently from your average tree hugger. So lets say you are running your home on free power from the sun, what say you ?

Well, imagine driving your electric car home and plugging it into your electrical outlet in your garage, which is getting power for free from the sun from your solar panels (Minus any yearly maintenance costs) The demand for oil will be driven down and the price of gas will drop significantly.

With world demand rising for oil based products and fossil fuels lets get smart and try to find a way to reduce our consumption.

About 19% of all our oil we use comes from the Middle East. Liberals crying about blood for oil are a little misguided. We get most of our oil from Canada, South America and North Africa. We get about 2% from Iraq and ZERO from Iran. Saudia Arabia is our # 2 supplier but they are our friends and allies.

The sun creates enough energy in one hour to run the planet and meet all its energy needs. Digging for coal and oil is antiquated and old school thinking. We have the technology now, it just needs to become affordable to the public. For every megawatt of power generated from the sun into a solar grid about 75 jobs are created. These include installers, engineers, technicians, management, etc. There is no need to climb down a hole in the ground 2 miles below the earth to dig up coal when the sun will more than meet our energy needs for billions of years.

Al Gore has his heart set on Global warming and I think he is doing what he believes is best for the country, but his science is wrong and I do not support his liberal stance on anything. But to his credit, he did bring renewable energy to the forfront of our nation’s mindset. Global warming may be a science fiction story to help Al raise money for the Democratic Party but we are running out of fossil fuels and the price of gas is going to continue to increase and hurt our econonomy.

Lets roll up our sleeves and start getting SOLAR energy on the front burner for an energy source. Keep politics out of it. As a LIFETIME MEMBER of the Republican Party I do hope my party takes a hold of this issue and runs with it as a capitalistic idea rather a TREE HUGGER issue for the sake of our country and our children. I am going to set the example and put solar panels on my south side of my house in Florida and kiss my electric bill goodbye. Gulf Power yearly rate increases be damned.

Good job to President Bush for continuing the advance of solar power at the White House. May the Republican Party get a grip on this issue and wrestle it away from the Democrats who are on the right track with this issue (except for Global Warming) but hey, they even blamed Bush for the ice age 10,000 years ago (:

What drives solar power in the U.S.? Optimally, 7 cents per kilowatt-hour. It’s not about Al Gore, greenhouse emissions or anything else; it’s about economics.

Both Nanosolar and Zytech understand this and our type of solutions (albeit VERY different) can help make the economics work.