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** '''claim 1''': Fossil fuels are a major cause of global warming and environmental destruction. | ** '''claim 1''': Fossil fuels are a major cause of global warming and environmental destruction. | ||
*** http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/ch4s4-3-1.html "Fossil energy use is responsible for about 85% of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions produced annually." | *** http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/ch4s4-3-1.html "Fossil energy use is responsible for about 85% of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions produced annually." | ||
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** '''claim 1''': Electricity usage is far less at night. | |||
*** Saying "far less" may be an exaggeration; it's consistently less, but only about 10-20%. This page has a graph to substantiate that: http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=13131 | |||
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** '''claim 1''': Investment in solar panels generally pays off after only a few years, after which the power is essentially free. | |||
** '''claim 2''': The cost of solar panels is dropping rapidly due to the accelerating pace of research. | |||
*** http://blog.rmi.org/blog_2013_5_14_As_Solar_PV_Efficiency_Climbs_Costs_Likely_To_Drop | |||
**** (just a sample quote) "...recent advances in identifying potential organic materials for printable photovoltaic cells for thin film applications are promising to make that technology especially cost-effective, even while boosting its efficiency." | |||