Per KWh produced solar creates lotsa jobs - part of the reason for its enormous installed cost. Even more jobs if we paid an army of folks to throw rocks through folk's single glazed windows, then author army to follow them around with EnergySave replacements.

Unsubsidized Solar is not even close to the cost of coal when real installed and finance costs are included. Grade 3 arithmetic applied to Warren Buffet's largest in the world Topaz and Sanctity projects comes to 40 cents a kwh when deflated to 2016 in service costs. That doesn't include the 35 cents a kwh the Ontario Auditor General estimated for the required 10 times sized transmission facilities, backup gas plant, and surplus dumping