Ray Burgess, CEO of Solar Power Technologies, a Texas-based solar monitoring company: “Solar panels do not work that well. Often far below expectations.” “In Italy last year, ‘they discovered that after one year in the field, over 90% of the (solar panels) from a one megawatt project began to delaminate and ended up on the ground.’ Delaminate: Scientific talk for falling apart.” The companies that make the damn things, like Solyndra, don’t work all that well either, so it’s a perfect match. And Obama makes three.
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After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.
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