Biggest Solar Panels Still Not Big Enough

This is going to be the secret to solar’s success; not more solar, but better solar, allowing solar to eventually replace at least 25 percent of fossil-fuel electricity generation by making it both efficient and affordable.

It isn’t merely important that solar succeed as an energy resource, it’s essential. Petroleum experts like Dr. Sadad al-Huseini, the former Head of Exploration and Production at Saudi-Aramco, has publicly admitted that oil is likely to peak by 2015, and he is joined by Dr. Shokri Ghanem, director of research at OPEC’s Secretariat from 1993 to 2001, who publicly stated that peak oil could arrive within the next decade. Coal is facing the same peak.
The petroleum companies and their representatives are running scared, not only at the idea of Peak Oil, but at the idea that their reign of pollutive terror (and massive profits) will be ended if the climate bill is passed. This is the reason behind the American Petroleum Institute’s leaked memo urging members’ employees to pretend they are private citizens and badmouth climate legislation (Waxman-Markey).

It comes as no surprise to those who advocate clean energy technologies like solar that all the fish in U.S. streams contain mercury from coal-burning power plants, and that fully 25 percent of this contamination exceeds federal standards for safety.

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