Help Fox’s Bill O’Reilly Go Solar!
"Help Fox’s Bill O’Reilly Go Solar!"
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In another tirade against solar, Bill O’Reilly recently said he couldn’t find anyone in Long Island to install a system on his house.
“There’s no where, no one,” explained O’Reilly. Gee, what a predicament.
Actually, as a quick Google search points out, there are more than a dozen companies installing solar electric and solar hot water systems around Long Island. And that’s not to mention the dozens of other solar companies working throughout New York State.
Unfortunately, if we can’t expect a major media figure like O’Reilly to do an easy Google search to find a solar company, how can we expect him to report fairly on the industry? As a recent compilation of Fox News clean energy coverage makes perfectly clear, the pundits railing against solar simply have no idea how the technology works. It’s time to fight back against this ignorance not by telling these pundits that solar works, but by actually showing them.
If you’re a solar company in New York, consider taking O’Reilly up on his offer and install solar on his house. If he’s serious about creating a “no spin zone,” maybe he’ll actually give the technology a fair shake.
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Indeed. If Laura Statchel of WECARE Solar* can bring the technology to Africa, I’d hazard a guess O’Reilly can find someone to do the same in his area.
*Seriously, read that story and watch the video. It’s like every good cause you can think of, literally and figuratively packed in a suitcase
Oh yes. All sceptics should be approached thus.
This is in fact a good method at convincing die hards because of the nature of their personality.
If they directly gain from the exercise they are able to see the light and instantly become torches for the cause.
Not enough wind eh Bill, just stick your head out of the window and talk just as you do on Fauxe non-News. Probably lift a few balloons too.
Be nice! Bill is an ‘historian’ like Newt, not a scientist. I hear his new book on Lincoln is getting rave reviews. The sun can be a little scary to serious researchers you know. It hurts the eyes.
This is just sad to see two people like O’Reilly and that blonde just try to drown out a simple response with non-sense. As the saying goes, it is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon will just knock over the pieces, poop on the board, and fly away claiming victory.
My day was going so well too after seeing this post on an airborne wind turbine on Climate Crocks.
http://climatecrocks.com/2011/11/17/the-airborne-wind-turbine/
Makani claims they can get up to 65% capacity factor just off Long Island (among many other places across the USA). Holy cow, that is an awesome capacity factor, and such an innovative design.
Oops, forgot the link showing the capacity factor claims. You have to click through the slideshow a bit.
http://www.makanipower.com/concept/fundamentals/
Stephen Lacey wrote: “It’s time to fight back against this ignorance … “
These so-called “pundits” are bought-and-paid-for propagandists, reading from scripts handed to them by the fossil fuel corporations.
The first step in fighting back is to stop pretending that their calculated, scripted, focus-group-tested, DELIBERATE LIES are the result of “ignorance”.
They are not the product of “ignorance”. They are the product of a deliberate effort to undermine and obstruct, and if possible destroy, the rapidly growing solar energy industry in the USA before it can cut into the profits of the fossil fuel corporations — particularly coal.
You are right, Secular Analyst. “DELIBERATE LIES are [not] the result of ignorance”. But the targeted, overweight, 60-something, chip and dip chewing, Miller-Lite slurping , undershirt wearing, head bobbing couch potato viewer of GOP-TV… could be… might be… you know… intellectually challenged.
SecularAnimist is right. These are propagandists. If they suffer from ignorance it is certain to be willful ignorance. THey are not merely “pundits”, they are liars. If O’Reilly said, “There’s no where, no one,” that’s a lie – there is no other word for it. Stephen, keep up the good work and remember: call them what they are and don’t give them any cover by using even slightly euphemistic language.
Well said. Exculpating lying disinformationists on the fraudulent grounds that they are ignorant imbeciles is disgraceful. It is their idiot followers who deserve those epithets.
“They are the product of a deliberate effort to undermine and obstruct, and if possible destroy, the rapidly growing solar energy industry in the USA before it can cut into the profits of the fossil fuel corporations — particularly coal.”
Think that’s bad? Our very own Chancellor of the Exchequer, Osborne, just killed our entire solar industry read comment by RobM01). Osborne’s the one who listens mostly to his predecessor, Nigel Lawson, by the way.
Solar’s fighting back in the courts so fingers crossed, but they have very little time to prepare their case.
Well said, S.A. Cutting and succinct. I will borrow this. h/t to you.
And on those fossil fuel interests, particularly oil, have you read Greg Palast’s latest oeuvre ‘Vultures’ Picnic’ (and yes the apostrophe is in the correct position)?
Puts a whole new perspective on that Gulf Oil blow-out, that is if you had not already reached such a point of view.
Warning before starting to read – strap yourself into a dentist’s chair with a head restraint and inside a mesh screen so that when you are tempted to get angry you don’t break something or hurt those nearby.
“have you read Greg Palast’s latest oeuvre ‘Vultures’ Picnic’”
Greg’s made chapter one available for download from his website.
Bill O’Really is back- and not a moment too soon- has he edited his book on Lincoln to omit
the oval office being in existence in 1865?
Or should he consult Newt on climate change?
Really?
The newly constructed solar farm at Brookhaven is now producing electricity.
http://scienceblogs.com/brookhaven/2011/11/the_long_island_solar_farm_at.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink
I don’t know how close Brookhaven is to O’Reilly’s house, but maybe they could wire him up as, y’know, a public service…
Well, if I were a solar installer I wouldn’t go near his place. Who knows what misinformation or lies he might spew about the installation, etc. What a toxic man.
Checked Google Earth. Less than a half mile from Mr. O’Reilly’s house is a good size (48 panel) residential installation. Probably 10 kw.
Residential installers will go 50+ miles for work. The good ones are in and out in a day or less anyway, travel time is irrelevant.
Frankly, Mr. O’Reilly should be directing his concern towards what sea level rise will do to his ocean front property rather than whether there are installers in the area.
It is always good to find the silver lining – Bill O’Reilly’s house sinking in the ocean.
Is it unfortunate that ‘Oh-Really?’ will have returned to the carbon cycle himself by the time the sea rises?
FOX NEWS CLIMATE DENIAL DOMINATES CABLE NEWS | A new academic paper confirms that Fox News systematically deceives its viewers about climate change, significantly altering their views. Nearly 60 percent of Fox News broadcasts were dismissive of climate change http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/11/18/372313/yes-virginia-fox-news-lies-about-climate-change/
It’s 90% plus at ‘The Fundament’ Murdoch’s local effluent outflow. And then they claim to be, you guessed it- ‘Fair and Balanced’.
Omg, this blond woman is so annoying.
Has anyone actually looked at Bill’s house to see if he ALREADY has solar? He and his kind know full well that it works, and it’s price point. They’re not stupid. They are just in the business of deceiving the gullible.
I can’t believe that Bill O’Reilly has influence on people. I rarely have the patience to listen or read what he has to say. He makes me angry! People that follow him are really stuck in outmoded thinking.
Perhaps Bill could not find one contractor that would work for “HIM”! That I can understand. I would be hard pressed to give him the time of day.
Bill could just use this site to find a solar installer in New York state.
http://apps.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=34065&state=NY
It is a directory with many clean tech businesses listed, including solar.
Here is a copy of the tweet we sent out 3 days ago at the time O’Reilly was making these ridiculous remarks:
From: @ecooutfitter: “@oreillyfactor I challenge you to see how awesome #Solar really is! I will come to your LI home & show you or visit me ow.ly/7uOKH”
This offer still stands. We can be at your house in 20 minutes, just say when.
I represent YSG ( You Save Green), a Long Island based energy efficient and renewable energy company. Our company is constantly working with homeowners to educate them on the benefits of solar energy and how to save money and energy in their home.
There are over 40 solar PV contractors on Long Island. http://sunshineisfree.org/contractorselector.php?county=1&sortorder=0