{"id":34074,"date":"2017-01-23T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=34074"},"modified":"2017-01-23T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T23:17:10","slug":"one-way-mexico-pay-trumps-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/one-way-mexico-pay-trumps-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"One Way Mexico Could &#8220;Pay&#8221; For Trump&#8217;s Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Last August, I wrote a piece<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wary-sunlight.flywheelsites.com\/change-narrative-clean-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\">lambasting<\/a> my favorite radio show, American Public Media\u2019s Marketplace, for their uninformed views on wind and solar power. The show bills itself as the most widely heard program on business and the economy &#8212; radio or television, commercial or public broadcasting &#8212; in the country. On Friday, December 30th, 2016 they redeemed themselves. For the weekly wrap, Lizzie O&#8217;Leary (in for Kai Ryssdal) is joined by Linette Lopez of Business Insider and John Carney of the Wall Street Journal for the weekly wrap.<\/p>\n<p>At the third minute, John Carney and Linnette Lopez talk about putting solar panels on President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cFreedom and Friendship Wall.\u201d Lizzie O\u2019Leary then talks about how well the solar market is doing. John Carney jumps in and says that if we sell the solar power from the Wall to Mexico, we can technically say that Mexico paid for that wall. Great point that I wanted to investigate a bit further.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"center\"><p>If the power were to be sold to the Mexican people \u2013 power they desperately need \u2013 then the President could actually make good on his promise.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/wary-sunlight.flywheelsites.com\/one-way-mexico-pay-trumps-wall&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;If the power were sold to the Mexican people, Pres. could make good on his promise&quot; @JigarShahDC\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First, a bit of background on solar. In 2016, the U.S. installed more solar power generation than any other type of power generation. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.gov\/todayinenergy\/detail.php?id=29212\" target=\"_blank\">projects<\/a> 9.5 gigawatts of utility scale solar to be installed in 2016. Add in distributed generation on rooftops and solar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/us-solar-market-set-to-grow-119-in-2016-installations-to-reach-16-gw\" target=\"_blank\">could top<\/a> 16 gigawatts in 2016. In fact, almost 75 percent of all new electricity generation capacity will be zero-carbon (solar, wind, nuclear, hydro).<\/p>\n<p>For the solar industry, a majority of these new employment opportunities <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/01\/12\/news\/economy\/solar-energy-job-growth-us-economy\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">are blue-collar construction and manufacturing jobs<\/a> that pay an average of $21 per hour &#8212; far higher than the $16-per-hour non-union manufacturing jobs touted across the country.<\/p>\n<p>On John Carney\u2019s comment on the President-elect\u2019s \u201cFreedom and Friendship Wall,\u201d let&#8217;s start with some basics. The average commercial solar panel is 77 inches by 39 inches. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/security\/systems\/mexico-wall.htm\" target=\"_blank\">border with Mexico<\/a> is roughly 2,000 miles or about 3,200 kilometers. If you position the solar panels on the wall with one single row with the short side down, you get about 3,200,000 panels or about 1,000 MWs of solar power. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/02\/26\/so-how-high-will-do\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>, the wall with Mexico could be 65 feet high. So you could technically flush mount almost ten solar panels onto the wall, but most likely you would only have five to optimize production per solar panel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"34081\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/one-way-mexico-pay-trumps-wall\/solar-panel-1393880_1280\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/solar-panel-1393880_1280.png\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"solar-panel-1393880_1280\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/solar-panel-1393880_1280.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/solar-panel-1393880_1280.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34081\" src=\"https:\/\/wary-sunlight.flywheelsites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/solar-panel-1393880_1280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/solar-panel-1393880_1280.png 1280w, https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/solar-panel-1393880_1280-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/solar-panel-1393880_1280-810x456.png 810w, https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/solar-panel-1393880_1280-1140x641.png 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That means you could put almost 5,000 MWs of solar panels on the wall. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/pvwatts.nrel.gov\/pvwatts.php\" target=\"_blank\">PVWatts<\/a>, the wall would produce over 6,600,000,000 kilowatt-hours. At about six cents per kilowatt-hour (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazard.com\/media\/438038\/levelized-cost-of-energy-v100.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">typical cost<\/a> of electricity from natural gas and coal plants in the USA) the electricity would be worth about $396,000,000 per year. Over the 40 year life of the solar panels, the solar panels would collect over $15,840,000,000 \u2013 not counting the tax credits already in place for solar, low-cost debt from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nadb.org\/Reports1\/Press_Releases\/english\/2015\/082615.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">North American Development Bank<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powermag.com\/mexico-makes-rapid-progress-energy-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\">escalating value of daytime power<\/a> in Mexico.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"left\"><p>Independence is the heart of American identity. Clean energy is independence turned into electrons.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/wary-sunlight.flywheelsites.com\/one-way-mexico-pay-trumps-wall&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;Clean energy is independence turned into electrons.&quot; @JigarShahDC\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That same Washington Post article quoted the President saying that he thought the wall could be built for $12 billion. So if the power were to be sold to the Mexican people \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powermag.com\/mexico-makes-rapid-progress-energy-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\">power they desperately need<\/a> \u2013 then the President could actually make good on his promise to say that the Mexican people paid for the wall (as John Carney suggested). Also with 2,000 miles available, the technology sponsorship models would be endless. There is so much good technology coming out of the Department of Energy <a href=\"http:\/\/arpa-e.energy.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">that needs to be commercialized<\/a>, what better place than at the wall?<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, given that the solar industry alone has created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesolarfoundation.org\/solar-jobs-census\/\" target=\"_blank\">one out of every 80<\/a> jobs in the United States since the great recession, this is a project the solar industry is well staffed and happy to help with. The solar industry needs to change the conversation to align with the deep emotional and aspirational narratives that speak to the American public. With the wall, clean energy would feel as all-American, cutting-edge, rugged, reliable, resilient, and tough as fracking. The same American ideals of independence, freedom, self-sufficiency, and opportunity can bring together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forwardprogressives.com\/green-tea-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">green advocates and Tea Party stalwarts<\/a>, labor and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">entrepreneurs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspref.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">main street and Wall Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"right\"><p>The solar industry alone has created one out of every 80 jobs in the United States since the great recession.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/wary-sunlight.flywheelsites.com\/one-way-mexico-pay-trumps-wall&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;Solar industry has created 1 of every 80 jobs in the US since great recession&quot; @JigarShahDC\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Independence is the heart of American identity. Clean energy is independence turned into electrons: the application of cunning, sweat, and ingenuity to harness the restless power of the American landscape.<\/p>\n<p>With 75 percent of all new electricity generation coming from zero-emission sources this year and expect each year for the next four years, the American energy economy is changing, and changing rapidly. Solar energy (and others) is where the growth is happening. Time to tap into the billions of dollars solar can move into infrastructure ($45 billion in 2016 alone).<\/p>\n<p>By rebranding clean energy, we can empower all Americans to work together for a stronger future. It\u2019s time to get down and dirty.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This post originally appeared on Jigar\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/giving-mainstream-media-credit-getting-things-right-solar-jigar-shah?trk=prof-post\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if we lined President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Freedom and Friendship Wall&#8221; with solar panels, then sold the energy created back to those living in energy poverty in Mexico? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":34075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[476,1488,1918],"tags":[3557,3596,2788,265,3598,1848,1410,97,1816,3244,3597],"class_list":["post-34074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-energy-tags","category-civic","tag-civic-engagement","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-energy","tag-freedom-and-friendship-wall","tag-government","tag-jigar-shah","tag-mexico","tag-politics","tag-solar-power","tag-trumps-wall"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One Way Mexico Could \u201cPay\u201d For Trump\u2019s Wall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What if we lined President Trump&#039;s U.S.-Mexico wall with solar panels, then sold the energy created back to those living in energy poverty in Mexico?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/one-way-mexico-pay-trumps-wall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One Way Mexico Could &quot;Pay&quot; 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