Solar Energy

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I was just watching Fox news and they showed a huge solar project that was just finished out in the Nevada desert. They built it in a way it cost about $6,000 for enough to supply electricity for the average home. This will cost you about $30,000 if you do it out here on your own. Right now the system is converting 11% of the suns energy that strikes it into electricity. It's a fixed system like you would install on your roof. In other words it doesn't automatically track the sun like some do. If Obama would get on this and put a few billion into this project he could not only greatly improve our energy problems but he could also take a big step in the right direction in solving our global warming problem. It would eliminate some of the power plant that are now generating huge amounts of waste heat as well as electricity. It would also eliminate another form of global warming that is very often ignored. In the past few years we have cleaned out a lot of trees and brush and built new houses. This increases global warming in two different ways. The trees and brush absorb the sun's energy and keep it from being absorbed by the earth. Also the roofs of the houses and the concrete work around them also absorb huge amounts of heat from the sun and emits it back into the atmosphere. The solar panels in this project absorbed 11% of the sun's energy that strikes it and that means 11% of the suns energy is not being reflected back out into the atmosphere. It also means the panels cast a shadow on the earth under them that has a cooling effect. They talk about drilling for more oil. Do you have any idea what it cost to build a platform and drill for off shore oil? You can bet you could build a huge solar project for what it would cost for just one off shore well. Just converting from oil and coal to solar energy to run our homes and businesses would probably solve most of our global warming problem. Especially if we started running more electric cars. They also announced part of obama's plan. He wants to spend I think $52B on improving and expanding our high speed internet connections for people that live outside the cities. Is this guy getting ready to put our public school system on computer and eliminate the system we have now? I have been expecting this for some time now. We already have one school channel on our cable TV. It wouldn't take much to move it from TV to computer and make it interactive. Just think of all the tax dollars this would save. I would go for it myself. We can raise a lot better kids in our homes than we can sending them to public schools. Keep your ears open for any talk along these lines and lets see what his plans are. I may be all washed up but we'll see. Art