The surest way to put an end to this Green Energy idea...
is to get behind it and make it successful. If that ever happens, the current opponents of the energy sources we currently have available will most likely find some fatal fault with it. I believe most of them simply hate success and support the improbable.
Those who believe that our consumption of fossil fuels is responsible for Climate Change conveniently ignore any evidence that refutes their beliefs (even to the point of inventing the data that does support them), and when Global Warming became an embarrasment they defined the problem as Climate Change. The arrogance is quite astounding, almost as though no one has the intelligence to notice the switch.
The folks who are involved in the production of energy through "traditional means," i.e. the combustion of fossil fuels or nuclear fuels, are required to defend their industries from their detractors who atack them through public opinion and government meddling. This is described in the article as attacking the new "Green" or renewable technologies and attempting to suppress them.
The idea of "free" energy from the sun through solar cells sounds like a grand accomplishment, and I would very much like to see it work. The problems with that technology are many, and it will be probably decades before a solar cell will make economic sense. I have never seen a photovoltaic cell, for example, that would ever be able to produce the amount of energy that was required to produce the photocell itself. Somehow, the energy required to produce the photocell was never included in the cost analysis.
Nothing is free. The laws of thermodynamics are not going to be revoked.
