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Joseph Romm vs. Bill Gates
by Ginosar 
Dr. Joseph Romm, on his widely popular and educational blog Climate Progress questioned today many of Bill Gates views on energy and global warming. With all due respect to Dr. Romm, I think he is not seeing the full meaning of Bill Gates points. Here ar… more »
05/06/11 08:11:31 am, Misleading the public on solar photovoltaic
by Ginosar
Here we go again. The US Solar Industry Association wrote recently how successful they have been in creating jobs and reducing system prices. I wish it was significant and useful to our struggle to reduce global warming, but PV is insignificant contribut… more »
Illuminating the Developing world.-Energy Eff. Conf. Cont.
by Ginosar
Energy Efficiency Conference
TECHNICAL DISCUSSIONS - CONTINUE:
Illuminating the Developing world.
Evan Mills, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Research Affiliate, Energy & Resources Group, UC Berkeley… more »
Energy production is of key importance, not size of systems
by Ginosar
Report: U.S. Market Sees 50% Annual Growth
The hodgepodge of federal and state policies are favoring the growth of large-scale solar farms, which will help propel the U.S. closer to the No. 1 spot, says GTM Research.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/art… more »
How the erroneous worship of photvoltaic developed
by Ginosar
In 1978 Paul Maycock, the manager of the photovoltaic (PV) program at the U.S. Department of Energy during the president Carter pro-green administration, funded an evaluation of economic and technical aspects of PV by the Aerospace corporation. That repo… more »
Lavish Federal support for solar is a mistake and waste money.
by Ginosar
Conservation can cut some 30 times more GHG than solar photovoltaic can dollar per dollar. The federal government is increasing the subsidies for solar photovoltaic by a large amount. What a waste of our meager resources. Who is happy, the over powerf… more »
Conservation can cut 30 times more CO2 per dollar
by Ginosar
The rapid advance of Global Warming and emitting 70 million tons of CO2 daily dictate that we should proceed immediately to cut CO2 as rapidly as possible. By using simple conservation we can more rapidly than any other approach cut down CO2 at the faste… more »
Price of PV systems is not likely to drop much.
by Ginosar
For many years solar advocates project with "great certainty" that the price of silicon photovoltaic systems will drop substantially as popular demand increase. This is contrary to actual market experience and contrary to basic economics. They use tw… more »
Misinformation Creates PV support
by Ginosar
Misinformation- The San Francisco Moscone Conference Center example There is considerable misleading information, and partial information in the PV field. This is one of the main reasons why supporters believe that PV could be cost-effective and prac… more »
Public support of solar is high but misplaced
by Ginosar
The Los Angeles Times wrote today that 92% of the public support solar. Of course solar energy is popular, it is magically appealing, but should we run our national policy by popularity of an unaware public, or by science and economic realities? The fe… more »