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💬General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: dhouston on August 25, 2015, 10:46:06 AM

Title: An interesting aspect of solar energy.
Post by: dhouston on August 25, 2015, 10:46:06 AM

Here's an interesting quote from a Fortune article about solar energy...

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The solar industry is providing more jobs in the U.S. than Apple AAPL , Google, Facebook FB and Twitter TWTR combined.

Here's the article...
http://fortune.com/2015/08/25/obama-says-theres-an-energy-revolution-underway/ (http://fortune.com/2015/08/25/obama-says-theres-an-energy-revolution-underway/)

Title: Re: An interesting aspect of solar energy.
Post by: Dan1 on August 25, 2015, 06:01:16 PM

Doubtful.

Title: Re: An interesting aspect of solar energy.
Post by: dave w on August 25, 2015, 08:52:51 PM

"Obama told the audience—" Ha-ha-ha-ha.
Saying the solar industry employs more that Apple, Goog, Twit, and Face sounds impressive, but is only slightly over 100k.
Shoot, before Solinda imploded, they employed that many maintenance, cafeteria, and janitorial workers (on the books).  rofl