[LMagic007]

Originally Posted by Wobs

We've always had concerns about energy supply, fears of fuels running out. Yet here we are and still approx the same amount of years of fuel left.

I haven't misrepresented you at all. To make a statement of "At current global growth rates ( 40% - 50% ) of Solar PV deployment, by 2030 Solar PV will have had a significant impact on our energy balance" is unrealistic. Whether economic growth slows or not, solar PV will not continue to grow at current rates. The reasons I stated still stand:

wobs wrote:

Do you agree with the statement? If you never believe that growth would continue at such a rate, then why say it?

The statement is clearly hypothetical. Anyone can appreciate that.

Originally Posted by Wobs

Solar PV is still not showing signs that it will be a major player in energy supplies on a global scale. There are many uses for it, but as a percentage of the total energy demands, its still tiny, even with the improvements.


Seems its not a mute point if you think that growths could continue at current rates, or even 20%.

Again historical growth of Solar PV and more recent growth rates would show strong cause to contend that view. The signs are early, but they are there. To clarify my remarks though I said "significant" so further more again you have misrepresented my remarks with your use of the word "major" there is a big difference between the two.

Originally Posted by Wobs

I'm tryng to get my head around your attitude here. All I said was that if you had any developments on clean coal technology then feel free to put some up. To go into detail into it, it would seem appropriate that the fossil fuel forum would be the place to put them. Where's the problem?

It's evident this reflects upon yourself, particularly in light of the above misleading reflection of my remarks and the fact that you don't really need to remind me where to put detailed information on clean coal. If I have information on clean coal that pertains to this discussion on Solar Energy, then it will likely go in this forum. As previously explained, no forum on energy restricts itself exclusively to its single topic.

Topics are often discussed and mentioned in context of comparison across forums. If the thread was brand new about clean coal then yes that's a separate matter. However in this case the discussion centers around the comparisons of Solar relative to clean coal developments. Thus its quite appropriate to discus clean coal in this forum in the context of Solar Energy to see how the two compare.

I briefly mentioned clean coal, though I do suggest that if you have information on clean coal developments, please do feel free to post that information as appropriate and if it is useful to compare these developments with Solar Energy and it pertains to this discussion of comparison, please feel free to post them in this forum as should others. I mean really, if one is going to post comparison notes between two technologies, whilst at the same time continuing the thread of a discussion on the main topic, they need to go in the same forum. If its a new or separate discussion, then yes of course they belong in their respective forums.