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Hey Unemployed America- Listen to our Awesome President! He gave us the biggest HINT about the next BIG THING. By his estimation, 3.5 million jobs will be created as we dive into an America power by clean energy, as we reform our health care system (we need NURSES) and educate our children. All the people associated with R&D, sales professionals, marketing teams, installers, converters, estimators, scientists, infrastructure developers, web developers… Look- jobs! in the growth and expansion of those THREE areas, all of which are located right here at home. Helping good ol’ America be awesome once again.
Take his advice. Pick one of those three pillars and get educated NOW. Ride the Green Wave! (But watch out for all that plastic clogging our oceans, killing our fish and polluting our shores.) Get a job helping to restore America. Because we can, and we will. You can too.
Solar energy rules, just in case you didn’t know. Solar panels are one of the first pieces of equipment manufactured to outlast our current conception of the ‘product cycle.’ Photovoltaic modules can function at high efficiency for up to 60 years! Do you own anything that has lasted for 60 years? I got a new backpack every school year… That’s all I’m saying… The most interesting part about the solar industry is that manufacturers can only guarantee their products for 25 years because if they told people the panels would last longer, Americans, with our understanding of the product cycle, don’t believe it! But it’s true. And people are inventing new things for solar panels every day to make them work at even a higher efficiency. Solar panel wipers for winter weather, coatings to promote higher efficiency, new shapes to capture light reflected off light coloured roof tops, the technology is getting better and better and they’ll work until my grandchildren are grown (and I shudder to even conceptualize my grandchildren).
Get involved. Get educated. Make some greens out of green. It’s awesome. Learn how and you can too.
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Hi, I am interested in learning a new trade. I would like to get involved in the solar energy. I have a bachelor degree in Professional Aeronautics with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Would I be able to use my degree with Embry-Riddle Aero Univ along with solar energy trade to be employable. What would you suggest thank you for your response. Israel 707-301-6419 cell
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We need to devote resources to building automated PV factories, even concentrated PV (since such limited elements as indium can be used to squeeze a whopping 40% of the sun’s energy by use of mirrors, can only then be “unlimited”). PV is only about 15% (forget 7% amorphous). So CPV is the way to go. CSP with heat storage is up to 20% from sunlight to heat to electricity. (The heat storage itself is like 98 – 99%!). So the question arises, Is it better to use batteries with the 40% CPV or use heat storage for the 20% CSP? At first, one would say go with the heat storage, but then, that requires the massive restructuring of desert lands. CPV, on the other hand, can be installed as much smaller distributed and even independent units such as PV itself. Largescale solar still requires the use of it being placed in the desert but each unit could be installed without the bulldozing of the lands. It would be similar to the CSP dish systems. Thus the NIMBY’s need to realize before they “act up” is to go ahead with big solar, just make sure that the desert is not plowed over like trough systems have to do.
Anyways, regardless of the “best” largescale solar setup, a feed in tariff needs to be implemented such that independents get rewarded but not such that everybody else suffers from high utility rates…
(And I need to make alot of money so I can learn more in Berkly)
Thanks for the comment YesOnSolar! Love the enthusiasm! Bring it!
I need help! I’m willing to do or go almost any where to get more training. The only thing is I can’t find any funding I’m in the printing business (Newspaper business the company that I work for now is a float, for know anyway. But I see the other train coming down the same track right at us. I’ve been trying to come up with a plan to get me this train before the wreck happen. There is barely any money left to save. Do you’ll have any programs for me. I will pick-up navel lent to help pay for my training I just need a chance.
Tyrone from Georgia a no renewable energy state.
Hi Tyrone! The economy is definitely moving away from print media. Any wonder? Hardly any trees left. I definitely hear ya on needing retraining. And that’s the beauty of America, when we come together, we’re a force to be reckoned with. Time to start calling programs, looking for student funding, talking with student loan offices, looking into retraining options. To find out more info about our program, contact a Boots enrollment adviser and they’ll see what they can do to help.
Looking for low coast training or comunity collage that has training
Hey Jody!
Get in touch with Boots on the Roof for more information.