I got my first solar cell in 1955. It was something I found at a surplus store. I was 12 and a geek so I was eager to get it and use it. I have had a fascination with solar power ever since, yes, 70 years. Solar for most purposes is impractical except for a large swath of the Southwest. And even there the solar farms go bankrupt because they were never about the green energy and were always subsidy farms not solar farms. Commercial Solar power makes no sense in northern latitudes. But the grifters go where the money is and of course the corruption to get them past any reasonable accountability.
I got my first solar cell in 1955. It was something I found at a surplus store. I was 12 and a geek so I was eager to get it and use it. I have had a fascination with solar power ever since, yes, 70 years. Solar for most purposes is impractical except for a large swath of the Southwest. And even there the solar farms go bankrupt because they were never about the green energy and were always subsidy farms not solar farms. Commercial Solar power makes no sense in northern latitudes. But the grifters go where the money is and of course the corruption to get them past any reasonable accountability.
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