Solar Energy
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It appears that The Times intends to do for the solar energy business what it is doing for the electric auto business: trumpet the overblown promises of heavily subsidized, politically correct but, realistically, doomed industries.
“A Fresh Jolt” (Heard on the Beat, May 28) parrots the ridiculous claim that 40 megawatts of solar power will light 1,000 homes. Well those 40 megawatts are available only a few minutes a day. The average is much less--none at night and very little on cloudy days.
Anyone who would pay 10 cents per kilowatt-hour for that kind of intermittent energy would probably buy a $40,000 electric car, and we now know how few of those were sold!
The cost, the intermittent nature of solar energy and the large area required to collect significant amounts of energy make solar energy noncompetitive even if the cost of the cells went to zero!
MARK DUSBABEK
La Quinta
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