The ‘Solar Decathalon’ That Needed a Gas Generator for Cloudy Days

27 Sep, 2011 by Warner Todd Huston

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What happens when the sun refuses to shine on a PR event for solar power…

Yeah, look to the right under the sign. Yep, that’s a gas generator powering the “solar” sign.

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Brett Jacobson was alerted to this hilarious example of the unviable nature of solar power as a reliable source of energy.

It was too deliciously funny to ignore.