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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (834453)	2/5/2015 12:43:35 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 1576954

ratie that is such a stupidity revealing story. For the number of people employed and the milliwatts of sometime power generation they create, A possible more productive use or workers would be to stop all machine assembly lines and replace the machines with people. Make glass bottle by manpower blowing each one. Make tin cans by hand soddering each one. Those are examples of work that would be more efficient then solar power workers vs coal miners for the terawatts of energy provided by coal and the milliwatts produced by solar power.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (834453)	2/5/2015 1:12:58 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576954

If we went all solar would everyone have to be working in solar?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (834453)	2/5/2015 1:43:28 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576954

WR, Solar already employs more people than coal mining, which has 93,185 workers This is an apples-to-oranges comparison, and I'm not surprised that the left-wing media is falling for it. 1) No one "mines" solar energy. 2) You don't have to install "coal panels" on your rooftop to take advantage of coal power. Two very different tasks, many different challenges. To say that solar power is a bigger "job creator" than the coal industry is stupid because it all depends on how you count those jobs and how much those jobs are actually producing. After all, coal still generates much, much more electricity than solar. It's cheaper, too. Unfortunately, it's dirty, which is why people are even considering something as inefficient as solar energy. Tenchusatsu