{"id":2676,"date":"2012-12-09T04:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T04:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2015-02-18T07:26:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T07:26:14","slug":"2012-12-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-12-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Rick Devlin<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">December 9, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2689\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2689\" title=\"2012-12-09-Rick-Devlin\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2012-12-09-Rick-Devlin.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2012-12-09-Rick-Devlin.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2012-12-09-Rick-Devlin-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 85vw, 277px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Devlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Environmental benefits of solar power are well known. Financial benefits of solar in California are not as well understood. <strong>Mark Thomas <\/strong>and<strong> Rick Devlin<\/strong> will discuss these and other aspects of solar energy.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of photovoltaic panels has dropped dramatically in the last 4 years, and is now less than 25% of their cost in 2008.\u00a0 With high, tiered residential electric rates in California, photovoltaic systems usually deliver excellent monthly cash flow if financed, or provide superb, low risk Return On Investment for a cash transaction.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2691\" style=\"width: 272px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2691\" title=\"2012-12-09-Mark-Thomas\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2012-12-09-Mark-Thomas.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2012-12-09-Mark-Thomas.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2012-12-09-Mark-Thomas-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 85vw, 272px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Thomas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Learn the details!\u00a0 <a title=\"SunStar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2012-12-09-solar-talk.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">View the presentation<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/59125385\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/59125385\">Humanist Community Forum (2012-12-09): Solar Energy (Rick Devlin)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Devlin December 9, 2012 Environmental benefits of solar power are well known. Financial benefits of solar in California are not as well understood. Mark Thomas and Rick Devlin will discuss these and other aspects of solar energy. The cost of photovoltaic panels has dropped dramatically in the last 4 years, and is now less &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-12-09\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solar Energy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[103,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7577,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/7577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}