RE: The Left's Basket Full Of Intolerant Crazy Ass Unfuckables
November 11, 2016 at 4:20 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2016 at 4:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Solar doing great work, currently
...not if being green is the metric. Due to some interesting political and economic manouvering, the dirtiest and shadiest of solar tech has emerged victorious (as in equally dirty and shady with the worst fossil fuel orgs). The guys who had good ideas got closed down (and to some extent those good ideas actually relied on the success of a dirty industry in the first place...they got their raw materials as waste byproduct of elecronics manufacturing - until their own industry became worth something and competition for those waste materials sent everyone in search of a new supply)....the industry stopped self reporting and the reporting body was coopted by those companies left in the wake who just so happened to have the lowest grades, previously, -from- those reporting agencies. Every time they deig to report statistics that we can;t even trust the picture just gets worse and worse anyone, on the green metric. Seeing as how we can positively trust that they -are- engaging in very convenient stat manipulation, the fact that theyre getting worse and not better probably means something a whole hell of alot shittier than even -they- decide to report...when they decide to report.
It's really, really bad at the moment, for solar. It doesn't have to be, but it is. Not saying there aren;t people doing good work, there are. I had a buddy doing some lab work as part of peer review on a promising new organic solar tech....turned out that the people who said they'd accomplished "x" were charlatans..he wasted a ayar and a half trying to replicate the unreplicatable. Money attracts charlatans....they, ofc, had already cashed in and cashed out before anyone realized what was up.
...not if being green is the metric. Due to some interesting political and economic manouvering, the dirtiest and shadiest of solar tech has emerged victorious (as in equally dirty and shady with the worst fossil fuel orgs). The guys who had good ideas got closed down (and to some extent those good ideas actually relied on the success of a dirty industry in the first place...they got their raw materials as waste byproduct of elecronics manufacturing - until their own industry became worth something and competition for those waste materials sent everyone in search of a new supply)....the industry stopped self reporting and the reporting body was coopted by those companies left in the wake who just so happened to have the lowest grades, previously, -from- those reporting agencies. Every time they deig to report statistics that we can;t even trust the picture just gets worse and worse anyone, on the green metric. Seeing as how we can positively trust that they -are- engaging in very convenient stat manipulation, the fact that theyre getting worse and not better probably means something a whole hell of alot shittier than even -they- decide to report...when they decide to report.
It's really, really bad at the moment, for solar. It doesn't have to be, but it is. Not saying there aren;t people doing good work, there are. I had a buddy doing some lab work as part of peer review on a promising new organic solar tech....turned out that the people who said they'd accomplished "x" were charlatans..he wasted a ayar and a half trying to replicate the unreplicatable. Money attracts charlatans....they, ofc, had already cashed in and cashed out before anyone realized what was up.
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