ROCK YOUR DEMOCRACY! Wishing Y'all HUGE success!
-Tjarnar of the 99%

With such a dismal record, how on earth was this man allowed to stay in office for 30 years??

If as much money was spent in kentucky on green technologies as was on digging up the earth and bribing Hal Rodgers the state would be much better off and have more sustainable jobs.
F*ck the 1 % and their paid stooges like Hal Rodgers.
Please let us try to vote out these anti middle class bums. If that is even still possible that the votes are even counted fairly

Solar companies are duping the public. Solar panels do not work as advertised. This comes not from coal executive but from Ray Burgess, who just happens to be the president and CEO of Solar Power Technologies, a Texas-based solar monitoring company that has developed a wireless mesh network to collect data from solar systems. Solar panels are inefficient and degrade rapidly.
And even if they did work, they would not help the environment as much as proponents say solar energy will. From Ray Burgess: “Solar panels do not work that well. Often far below expectations. And few know it. Not the owners who depend on power. Not the bankers who finance it. Not the brokers who insure it. And not the government agencies who subsidize it. There I said it: The nasty little secret of the solar business. And I said it right at a time when we who believe in solar are under public scrutiny like never before.”
But this does not stop the federal government from pushing solar energy as the savior of civilization. Even after Solyndra went belly up and welshed on a half-billion loan that he co-signed for, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told students: “Others say this is a race America shouldn’t even be in,” Chu said during his speech. “They say we can’t afford to invest in clean energy. I say we can’t afford not to. It’s not enough for our country to invent clean-energy technologies — we have to make them and use them too.”
Building solar panels is a problem. Using them is a bigger one.
From Ray Burgess: “As much as we do not know about the problems with solar components before installation, we know even less about how solar panels perform after. That is because until recently we only knew what a system of 10,000 panels was doing all together, not separately. But all the action takes place at the panel level. And if you know nothing about that, you are flying blind.”
Solar panels are extremely frail.
From Ray Burgess: “Solar production in the field can go bad for dozens and dozens of reasons: An errant golf ball. A passing flock of geese. Bullets. Leaves. Shadows. Dirt. And of course the plain old mechanical breakdowns listed above.If a leaf or bird dropping prevents the sun from hitting part of your solar array, that knocks out solar production in an area 36 times the obstruction.”
But solar energy does have potential and I am sure that it will develop rapidly over the next 30 years, just as computers did in the last 30.
But let us get real: We are not there yet.
And: Solar energy is not necessarily going to save the planet. From Robert Bryce in the Wall Street Journal:
In September, Tom Wigley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder published a report that determined “switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate.” Mr. Wigley found that the particulates put into the atmosphere by coal-fired power plants, “although detrimental to the environment, cool the planet by blocking incoming sunlight.”
If Mr. Wigley’s right, then using sources that emit no particulates, like nuclear and natural gas, will not make a major difference in averting near-term changes in the climate caused by carbon dioxide. But then — and here’s the part that most media outlets failed to discuss when reporting on the Wigley study — widespread use of renewables such as wind and solar won’t help much, either.
Follow the money. Hucksters do. And while I am sure that most of the problems in solar energy are technological and mechanical, there are more than a few charlatans out there trying to make a buck.

Leon, this is obviously copy-and-pasted from somewhere else. Would you please share your source(s)?

Im not Leon, but here is an article with the same information.
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/43912

Here is another article written by "Ray Burgess".
http://energy.aol.com/2011/10/07/solar-panels-dont-work-and-no-one-knows/