Samsung C&T Wins Solar Power Plant Deal in U.S. (5 plants totalling 130 MW)

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/02/18/2010021800505.html

Why do we always hear of the "home" as if it were a unit of energy?

Is there something wrong with the joule? The kilowatt-hour?

This unremarkable and next to useless deal will function, most likely, at 10 to 20% of capacity utilization, which is typical of solar electronic toys. This means that for much of the time it will power zero homes, not that night has ever prevented people from logging on line to tell us how wonderful solar energy is.

Right now, it's 8:36 pm where I am - a dark February night - most all of the roofs in this neighborhood are covered with full thick layers of snow and have been for more than a week. There are zero homes around here being powered by solar energy, even though some very wealthy and otherwise oblivious people have installed solar cells to get tax breaks so they don't have to fund shit like schools for poor people and health care for poor people. The output of their toxic junk is useless to anyone right now. What's providing the energy for those homes is dangerous natural gas.