Ten million dollars' worth of solar panels supply juice to 128 laptops.
How long would it take 128 laptops to burn ten million dollars' worth of petroleum-powered electricity? Exactly the problem with green people. They don't know enough math to figure out the worth of this program; it just satisfies them to know that it's a good thing to do, and in this case "good" means "no carbon dioxide."
Once they've started with "it's good", then the next step is to make up reasons why it's good. That usually means resorting to a cliche. "Since there is so little demand for green energy, there is too little activity going on in developing various forms. Our making solar panels is part of the process."
Sorry, folks, it's not. It's a stupid step in the wrong direction. The contamination garnered by the manufacture of this junk is nasty, durable, carcinogenic, poisonous, and the process of protecting man and nature from it far exceeds the pitiful little gains (mainly existing only in the imaginations of green supporters) that arise from substituting filthy energy sources for our standard sources. But that's another argument I'm not going to deal with. You can look it up at junkscience.com, and in fact I strongly recommend that you do.
Green people are full of chicken-little presuppositions that the sky is falling. It is not. Then they adopt "I'm good because I care; you're bad because you don't care" attitudes. It's not that they made up these attitudes to bolster arguments so much as that they already had this attitude from the first moment they heard about the issue. It's more of an underlying supposition about what's good and what's not, and keeping everyone terrified about an impending disaster is a very good way to separate the sheep from the goats. Sheep care, evil goats want to destroy the world, or kill babies, or keep the poor downtrodden, or trash the planet; you choose your issue.
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