Challenges of solar power to be discussed on Diane Rehm show today
The Diane Rehm show on NPR this morning at 11.00am features an hour long discussion about the technical, financial, and political challenges facing the U.S. solar power industry.
Guests include Rob Lamkin, CEO of Cool Earth Solar, Rhone Resch, president and chief executive officer of Solar Energy Industries Association, Peter Fox-Penner, principal and chairman emeritus of the international economic consulting firm, The Brattle Group, and author of the forthcoming book 'Smart Power.'
If you can't tune in at 11.00am you can listen to the program at your leisure here.
- David Adams, Times staff writer.
Wow -- now I know why I don't listen to NPR. Between the host with the speech impediment and the vendors each trying to say the most fantastic claim to back up their business plan, that was one painful show to listen to.
I started making note of the factual errors in the broadcast and had to stop after 4 or 5 minutes. They dropped the big bomb about a minute in:
"Solar energy is now totally competitive with other forms of electricity supply"
So if it's "totally competitive", can we stop paying people 10x the current price of wholesale power to produce it?
Posted by: Tino | July 13, 2009 at 03:48 PM