Sultan of Solar Singin' My Song

Check out this article in the American Enterprise Online. In it, William Tucker intereviews Larry Kamerski of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. Kamerski is director of photovoltaic research and one of the world’s leading experts on solar electricity.

When Tucker asked Kamerski what he thinks the "ultimate solution" will be, he was surprised and delighted by the answer. Kamerski said:

You’re probably not going to believe this...but around here we think it should be nuclear and solar. We’re big nuclear enthusiasts, although we don’t broadcast it much. I think we need nuclear to cover our base load of electricity and solar for peaking power. Solar’s best right when we need it—on hot summer days. If we do that, we can retire the fossil fuels—‘conserve’ them at least. It’s the only way we’re going to beat global warming

I'm not certain about solar being the best peaking source, but hey, I'm all for it if he can do it. He also has some interesting things to say about solar power in Europe.

Maybe we should enlist Kamerski's help in convincing the environmentalist groups that insist we can't have renewable energy and nuclear power that they are dead wrong.