Solar conspiracy: the $3,000,000,000,000 game plan of the energy barons' shadow government
The author, Chairman of the Board of International Solarthermics Corp. of Nederland, Colo., presents some very provocative questions and comments in this analysis of solar energy development in the U.S.--and in the process, the analysis pervades the whole muddled energy picture. Mr. Keyes' frustration and concern results essentially from the following: (1) his company invented and developed a backyard solar furnace with collector space approximately 100 ft/sup 2/ (about 10 times smaller than most other systems to date); (2) the furnace was tested, made a production-ready item, and was to be made and marketed by many independent manufacturers licensed under a patents-pending arrangement and in competition with each other; and (3) instead of being greeted with ''huzzahs'' as a breakthrough product, the furnace ''seemed to act like a red-flag stimulus designed to prompt the anger of the people already working in the field of solar energy research.'' It is (3) and the attacks by ''learned'' PhD's and other scientists and engineers that apparently inspired this book--indeed, Mr. Keyes attempts to analyze the motives behind these attacks, first pointing out that respected scientists had been wrestling with the problem for years and could not build a practical system with less than 1000 ft/sup 2/ of solar collector. He states further that many attackers suspended final judgment until they had visited the research facility and examined the data and collection methods; and that each who took the time to investigate carefully became a ''convert'' and advocate of the system. Mr. Keyes' analysis of the forces at play behind his charge of ''conspiracy''--that big business, aided unwittingly by governmental agencies, is inhibiting rapid development of solar energy--indeed provides food for thought for those who should scrutinize the whole energy ballgame. (LMT)
- OSTI ID:
- 7237508
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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