tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post6476955506642520272..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: Will Liberals laud Walmart?Sriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-60852767367796059852014-10-23T06:49:32.718-07:002014-10-23T06:49:32.718-07:00Solar is everywhere now, it seems like. As I have...Solar is everywhere now, it seems like. As I have been blogging here, we are rapidly reaching that tipping point when solar will become a no-brainer.<br />Watch this video about your own home town, Ramesh--about businesses in Bangalore that have gone solar in order to avoid the hassle of load shedding, lower their bills and, incidentally, go green:<br />www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKb7FWGdWnM<br />Maybe you even know, or know of, some of them?<br /><br />In graduate school, the metaphor that I picked up was that an ideology is like a colored filter and we always see the world in that color. But, the hassle is that almost always people in all walks of life, including faculty, operate via their preferred color filters ... I beat up on faculty only because I am a part of that group and am more familiar with them. However, it does not mean that the rest of the world is any better, right? Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-8013528905313496112014-10-22T18:54:47.975-07:002014-10-22T18:54:47.975-07:00Wow. I had no clue that this was so. Going down th...Wow. I had no clue that this was so. Going down the list , there are a lot of retailers. Perhaps understandable given that "real estate" is such an important part of solar generation.<br /><br />Another fact that caught my eye was that 105 MW is more than the generating capacity of 35 states !!!! 105 MW is absolutely nothing and yet many (presumably the smaller states in the liberal NE)don't even have that much. The consumption must be a 100 times this number. There are always strings attached to power generation - pollution if coal, environment if hydel, risk if nuclear, etc etc) - wonder what the nimby liberals think about exporting their risks to some poor sods in Texas :)<br /><br />You are absolutely right. We typically see only what we want to see, and we tend to dismiss evidence that does not resonate with our ideological perspectives. You try your best to be otherwise. Bravo.Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.com