GE to build nation's largest solar power plant

its not that they realised that solar power is cheaper and infinitely healthier. they dont care about things like life. they only care about 'profit' (read multi-million dollar salaries). and they have realised that the average consumer is finally waking up to the evils of burning poison to make electricity.

reply to post by fearnotruth


It astounds me that the governments waffle on, about so much rubbish and play the green card to the masses, yet they are so infective in doing much green at all. I guess thats most things done based on greed.

We had the yank GM over here in Aussie, not long after Japan polluted the world with poisons from GE's reactors, he was here in Perth trying to sell the new version death station, you know 3.2.1, and this now comes in red and not just green like FukUsHima.

The problem is that,t it will eventually kill your whole environment and you. It is not a matter of how but when. This is a definite. It seriously concerns me, that our governments are stupid enough to buy into these technologies. I would have liked a future for all our children. I do believe that when the public wake up, if they ever do, there will be a lot of kangaroo courts and hangings for the crimes committed against humanity.

reply to post by fearnotruth


Yes. Something that might be better might not be produced because no/little profit can be made. The "market solution" for America's energy problems has left us in the dark (ages) and at war.


reply to post by marsend


Yes. And notice how nuclear energy is being sold as "clean", but nothing being said about "safe".

reply to post by desert


It is a disgusting ploy. Natural options might not be as efficient, but they are sustainable and will not kill all your children, If the management had of went this way, the improvements that would have occurred would have made natural energy very efficient, you know solar panel 3.2.1 would have come around a lot quicker and possibly be talking 50 or 60 % efficiency or more, who knows.

Mans creativity and hunger for things can do amazing things, if as much research had of gone into the solar panel as has gone into Nuclear death rubbish, we would not be having this discussion, instead sooner or later you get to watch you children's or their children's hair fall out due to these type of poisons.

New Zealand should be very very proud, telling the American Nuclear dealers to go away and focusing on the one resource that they have a lot of, thermal and wind energy. A+ to the Kiwis.

I do believe that there is a very small place for nuclear reactors, medicine and such, but not as a primary contingency to drive our power needs. The World could have coped with a few small shared units for this type of thing, but not 400 plus mega death units, being driven for profit, by unscrupulous #####.

This is all well and good and I feel fuzzy and warm inside. Hooray for the sun god! Waitaminute.... Who wants to bet the floorplan for this place winds up being like the Fed building: a mithraic (sun-god!) temple, hahahahahahaha!!

Hummmm ----- Nah, that'd be too bald-faced. Wouldn't it?

Never understood why we cant just use geothermal energy....
Its free and always on... we drill more holes in the earth for oil.
No imagine all of the holes producing electricity and not pouring out oil...

en.wikipedia.org...

reply to post by neo96


The intial transition to renewable energy will rely on a diversity of technologies to account for intermittent power generation, backed up by nuclear/coal/gas (etc) as a baseload electricity source.

I believe that CSP (concentrated solar power) technologies utilising molten salts have been greatly overlooked.

reply to post by R3KR


Geothermal energy is great as long as you find a suitable location. Places like California in the US are lucky to have access to such a source. Other places, well not so lucky. Test bores are damn expensive for smaller organisations too.

This latest ploy by GE Corp.( = Greedy Electric Corp.) is a blatant attempt to redirect the public's attention in an entirely different direction and to defuse the outrage felt by taxpayers in light of the recent disclosure concerning the $14.2 billion realized from global profits (inclusive of the $5.1 billion they didn't pay US taxes on.)

NY Times article

The source in the OP discloses a figure of a mere $600 Million investment in solar energy strategies. That isn't even equal to 1 % of 2010's net profit. Rather this pittance is tossed out for gullible peons to quieten them while all the time knowing the proposed innovations will not resolve the energy or ecologic crisises the felonious practices of theirs and those of similar ilk have brought about.

Go off grid and turn the lights out on GE.