This article is surprisingly good considering the source that tends to be more big oil, big, coal, big nuclear and Bush/Cheney. Although accurate as far as it goes, it is limited by the fact that only grid tied solar energy systems are considered . As a 25 year purveyor and user of such systems, this is not the best way to go. When your energy system can put power back into the grid, you are giving control of the asset (that you paid for) to the power company, who are actually your competitor in this case. They control how large a system you can install, how much they give you for power; they can even confiscate built up surpluses after a set period of time. The alternative is using the grid only for backup and having a means of storing and using your surpluses, which are almost always significant in the summer. Until we get journalists who know something from experience about these systems, we will continue to get half-truths and misinformation. Such "journalists" whether intentionally or not, become propagandists for those whose vested interests are counter to the competition that solar offers. Now we are at the stage where these vested interests actually threaten the life of the global ecosystem, including billions of human beings. We can ill afford to let these "journalists" be the final word on subjects that so profoundly effect us all.