The Nature of Things

Fox News does it again, spreading disinformation to its vast audience of gullible souls. It is part of their remit, of course, to be totally opposed to any source of energy which does not pollute the atmosphere, so we should not be surprised that they scoff at the whole idea of solar energy. You can't depend on the sun, they say. Some days it is cloudy. When it is pointed out to them that other countries are moving ahead quite successfully with solar energy projects, their "experts" will explain that it is because those countries are much sunnier than the United States. Sunny, sunny Germany , for example.   When asked why Germany is doing so much better than the United States in this field,    Fox Business reporter Shibani Joshi explained,  "They're a smaller country, and they've got lots of sun. Right? They've got a lot more sun than we do." He went on,  "The problem is it's a cloudy day and it's raining, you're not gonna have it....