PARIK Answered:
It is pretty expensive to use solar panels to produce electricity, and sunlight is only there for 10-12 hrs so we need to store the electricity produced by the panels in cells,
both the panels and the cells cost a lot so it is better to go for wind energy instead of solar..

hope you like my answer

Rufus Answered:
Solar panels are fairly expensive, but with advance in technology they are becoming much cheaper.You may get some good information from http://www.freeelectricityx.com who look into the benefits and costs.They also provide instruction in how to build your own solar panels very cheaply.

Afrina Answered:
Checkoutthird & fourth link
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ik Answered:
Capital costs are high, although maintenance is little other than cleaning and repairs. To be warranted, solar cells require a fairly high and steady amount of insolation. Ironically, the best place in the world for this is Saudi Arabia, in the vicinity of Mecca. It would probably not pay to use solar energy if you lived in Seattle or London, England. Different areas can go green in different ways. Tidal and wave power are restricted to the coasts. In contrast, the Midwest could use wind turbines.

Capn Eddie Answered:
The same reason Enron was given a special exemption from accounting rules by the Clinton adminstration.

Democrats corrupt our entire system.

Obamageddon Answered:
Crony corruption from a corrupt regime, plain and simple.

Reality has a Liberal Bias Answered:
July 2005: The Bush Administration signs the Energy Policy Act of 2005 into law, creating the 1703 loan guarantee program.

February 2006 October 2006: In February, Solyndra raises its first round of venture financing worth $10.6 million from CMEA Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and U.S. Venture Partners. In October, Argonaut Venture Capital, an investment arm of George Kaiser, invests $17 million into Solyndra. Madrone Capital Partners, an investment arm of the Walton family, invests $7 million. Those investments are part of a $78.2 million fund.

December 2006: Solyndra Applies for a Loan Guarantee under the 1703 program.

Late 2007: Loan guarantee program is funded. Solyndra was one of 16 clean-tech companies deemed ready to move forward in the due diligence process. The Bush Administration DOE moves forward to develop a conditional commitment.

October 2008: Then Solyndra CEO Chris Gronet touted reasons for building in Silicon Valley and noted that the companys second factory also will be built in Fremont, since a Department of Energy loan guarantee mandates a U.S. location.

November 2008: Silicon prices remain very high on the spot market, making non-silicon based thin film technologies like Solyndras very attractive to investors. Solyndra also benefits from having very low installation costs. The company raises $144 million from ten different venture investors, including the Walton-family run Madrone Capital Partners. This brings total private investment to more than $450 million to date.

January 2009: In an effort to show it has done something to support renewable energy, the Bush Administration tries to take Solyndra before a DOE credit review committee before President Obama is inaugurated. The committee, consisting of career civil servants with financial expertise, remands the loan back to DOE without prejudice because it wasnt ready for conditional commitment.

March 2009: The same credit committee approves the strengthened loan application. The deal passes on to DOEs credit review board. Career staff (not political appointees) within the DOE issue a conditional commitment setting out terms for a guarantee.

June 2009: As more silicon production facilities come online while demand for PV wavers due to the economic slowdown, silicon prices start to drop. Meanwhile, the Chinese begin rapidly scaling domestic manufacturing and set a path toward dramatic, unforeseen cost reductions in PV. Between June of 2009 and August of 2011, PV prices drop more than 50%.

September 2009: Solyndra raises an additional $219 million. Shortly after, the DOE closes a $535 million loan guarantee after six months of due diligence. This is the first loan guarantee issued under the 1703 program. From application to closing, the process took three years not the 41 days that is sometimes reported. OMB did raise some concerns in August not about the loan itself but how the loan should be scored. OMB testified Wednesday that they were comfortable with the final scoring.
January June 2010: As the price of conventional silicon-based PV continues to fall due to low silicon prices and a glut of solar modules, investors and analysts start questioning Solyndras ability to compete in the marketplace. Despite pulling its IPO (as dozens of companies did in 2010), Solyndra raises an additional $175 million from investors.

November 2010: Solyndra closes an older manufacturing facility and concentrates operations at Fab 2, the plant funded by the $535 million loan guarantee. The Fab 2 plant is completed that same month on time and on budget employing around 3,000 construction workers during the build-out, just as the DOE projected.

February 2011: Due to a liquidity crisis, investors provide $75 million to help restructure the loan guarantee. The DOE rightly assumed it was better to give Solyndra a fighting chance rather than liquidate the company which was a going concern for market value, which would have guaranteed significant losses.

March 2011: Republican Representatives complain that DOE funds are not being spent quickly enough.House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI): despite the Administrations urgency and haste to pass the bill [the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act] billions of dollars have yet to be spent.
And House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL): The whole point of the Democrats stimulus bill was to spend billions of dollars most of the money still hasnt been spent.

June 2011: Average selling prices for solar modules drop to $1.50 a watt and continue on a pathway to $1 a watt. Solyndra says it has cut costs by 50%, but analysts worry how the company will compete with the dramatic changes in conventional PV.
August 2011: DOE refuses to restructure the loan a second time.
Source(s):

Source: Clean Technica (http://s.tt/13giD)

The ORyan Answered:
Because 15 million of it went straight to Obama.

Chris R Nonhipster Answered:
Cronyism.

BadWolf63 Answered:
Because one of Solyndra owners, Kaiser, has been a huge donor for the Obama 2008 campaign.

Liberals Sequestered from truth Answered:
That is the democratic corruption that forces me to vote republican weather I want to or not.

Robert Answered:
For the first part, you can pick an arbitrary area, say 1m^2, and solve.A should cancel.

For the second, doing some mental math I get the same total mass but I recall solar radiation being 1300W/m^2 at earth's orbit, which gives me 130 N, not 14.The acceleration should be on the order of 0.01g if I recall solar sails correctly.

Good luck.

Fleshgod Answered:
Big bang go boom.

ANDRE L Answered:
The Big Bang created space & time. All of the matter in the Universe is a product of TBB.

Really, read the link.

HistoryFan Answered:
Wow lol I my head hurts reading the Idiocy of this question. Plz be a troll

WellTraveledProg Answered:
It didn't "create" anything.

Stars form through the gravitational accumulation of gas in space — mainly hydrogen and helium.As the energy of the big bang cooled (as space expanded), guess what elements condense out of the hot plasma?Almost entirely hydrogen and helium.How about that.

Stars only need hydrogen to form.Helium kinda comes along for the ride.But there's no need for asteroids or anything else — they came long after the first stars had formed, built heavy elements in their cores, and then went supernova.

You seem to need a great deal of education.

Peace.

BibleChooser Answered:
1) If the big bang happened and it created our solar system then how come there are more stars/suns?

The Big Bang Theory (BBT) doesn't attempt to explain just the formation of our Solar System; it explains the formation of the entire Universe, including all of the other stars, planets, asteroids, moons, black holes and what-have-you.To put it more plainly:the BBT tries to explain the origin of all of the matter and energy that exist in our Universe.It does NOT deal specifically with the formation of our Solar System of any particular solar system; it only deals with Universe-wide concerns.

The BBT answers the question, "Where did everything in the Universe come from, and how has the Universe as a whole changed over time?"It does not answer the question, "How did our Solar System form?"

2) Do we know for sure which start created our galaxy or solar system.

The question is so imprecise and vague that I am unsure what you want to know.

- Jim, http://www.BibleSelector.com/

Typical T Answered:
u and ur concern

Boomm Answered:
YOUR CONCERN UNDESTAND SIR?

Nicky Deal Answered:
government grants, tax credits

bluebellbkk Answered:
Google "active solar energy" and next time you ask a question, please give the WHOLE expression, not just half of it.

Oh, and please switch off your "Title Case" setting. It's surprisingly hard to read text where every word starts with a capital letter.

Pia Answered:
Keep federal tax and state tax credits in mind when comparing green energy. These can save major tax dollars but that's only the beginning. Really compare the cost of installation verses monthly electric savings. These numbers are high and will in many locations continue to increase. Even though diy solar heating is initially expensive these systems need little maintenance. They pay for themselves over the life of a mortgage or loans

David Answered:
a big explosion and suddenly everything was created in a 100% perfect way, the planets were aligned perfectly, creatures were created perfectly everything. wow it makes so much sense!

If someone tells you there had been an explosion on the yard for trashed vehicles and all the peaces flew and built a new cadiallac? makes sense right?

Camoran Answered:
God said, "Let there be light," and sure enough, in the very first few microseconds after the Big Bang the universe (as it then existed) was flooded with photons. Stephen Weinverg wrote quite an interesting work a few years ago called The First Three Minutes. It is well worth the time it takes to read, and is available online as a free e-book.

Scripture teaches us that in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth, but it is singularly silent as to when and how.

Pyriform Answered:
There is evidence for the big bang.Recession of distant galaxies, cosmic microwave background and the overall chemical composition of evey star and galaxy that can be measured are three of the most important pieces.

I tried paint to see if if was wet decades ago.it was.I have not tried since.

I would not suggest the evidence for the oldest known planet is very good.That might be what www.space says, what did the scientists actually say?

David H Answered:
Every invention has a designer or creator, so why is it so difficult that this awesome universe has a creator, designer and purpose.There is no designer in the big bang theory, no order, just things happened to come together??Much easier to believe in a God.You place the ingredients of a lawnmower in a box and wait however many years, let me know when it becomes a lawnmower or any other product for that matter!!!The universe is much more intricate than that!

rowlfe Answered:
60 watts is BIG, AND expensive. You are talking 5 amps at 12 volts! And you are looking at hundreds of dollars! I have a 6 watt panel I use in my RV, which gives 500ma at 12 volts on a clear bright sunny day, which is enough to keep my batteries topped off from minimal use, but NOT something I could use to power this laptop I am using NOW to write this answer!YOU face the exact SAME problem. I have a friend who took the Y2K thing seriously, so seriously he moved off the grid. He bought a house and went solar. He spent over $20,000 on the panels and batteries he needed. And then consider this, the batteries do not last forever, so figure on about another $12K to replace the batteries at about 10 year intervals and another $8K to replace the solar panels as well. Solar panels DO "wear" over time and produce less and lass power per year. So, he is spending about $2K per year to maintain his solar power, which confidentially is about the SAME he would have spent if he stayed tied to the grid and paid for his electricity! There is NO benefit from converting to solar in a cost out of pocket expense, and you have the added time and trouble of maintaining the system. You have to clean the dust off the panels on a regular basis, or the dust blocks light and your panels lose output. So, there is NO inexpensive route that you can take since there is no cost-benefit in your favor. One of two things has to happen, or both before it makes financial sense to convert: the cost of the equipment has to go down or the cost of commercial electricity has to go up. the way things are today, you gain nothing by converting except the knowledge that you are having a slightly greener footprint in greenhouse gasses…

Mark Answered:
You should take help of a professional guys who can help you to build solar penal of your requirement. I will say it will cost you a little bit more as you expecting. But it can be achievable.

James Green Answered:
harbor freight.com
they have 45 watt ones& bigger ones

David H Answered:
Every invention has a designer or creator, so why is it so difficult that this awesome universe has a creator, designer and purpose.There is no designer in the big bang theory, no order, just things happened to come together??Much easier to believe in a God.You place the ingredients of a lawnmower in a box and wait however many years, let me know when it becomes a lawnmower or any other product for that matter!!!The universe is much more intricate than that!

Shelli L Answered:
I know of no solar charger attached directly to a phone. It would add extra weight. Portable seems to be what people want. But ,if you can configure out the way to do this, keep the cost down it might be a great idea. My solar charger for batteries is small but when I put the batteries in to recharge it's heavy. You could start with a solar pool phone. Pool owners have money and spend for pool gadgetry. I myself have a semi-waterproof pool phone so I can answer it with wet hands. Good luck!

Nick Answered:
i have one for my ipod that charges a battery or directly, check out walmart/ best buy or build one with stuff from radio shack