{"id":5982,"date":"2013-10-11T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=5982"},"modified":"2013-10-29T05:07:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T09:07:25","slug":"solar-vs-fossil-fuel-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/solar-vs-fossil-fuel-stocks.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar vs. fossil fuel stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/10191122464\/sizes\/z\/\" >\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3831\/10191122464_a6dab95a3b_n.jpg\" ><\/a>\r\nShould Harvard President Drew Faust\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/harvard-excuses-for-not-divesting-from-fossil-fuels.html\">\r\nworry that<\/a>\r\n&#8220;Significantly constraining investment options risks significantly constraining investment returns&#8221;?\r\nActually, if Harvard has been wasting investments in oil and gas for the\r\npast year, its endowment has lost a bundle.\r\nDitto VSU.\r\n<p>\r\nLet&#8217;s compare stock performance of\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/guggenheiminvestments.com\/tan\">\r\nGuggenheim Solar ETF (NYSE:TAN)<\/a>\r\nwhich invests in solar stocks with the\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.invescopowershares.com\/products\/overview.aspx?ticker=DBE\">\r\nPowerShares DB Energy Fund (NYSEARCA:DBE)<\/a>,\r\nwhich invests in oil and natural gas companies.\r\nYep, that&#8217;s\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?chdnp=1&#038;chdd=1&#038;chds=1&#038;chdv=1&#038;chvs=maximized&#038;chdeh=0&#038;chfdeh=0&#038;chdet=1381435200000&#038;chddm=8211&#038;chls=IntervalBasedLine&#038;cmpto=NYSEARCA:DBE&#038;cmptdms=0&#038;q=NYSEARCA:TAN&#038;ntsp=0&#038;ei=CdBWUtDbOo6UlgPDRA\">\r\n 120% for TAN and 0% for DBE<\/a>:\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/10191122464\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"TAN solar v DBE oil and gas 1 year\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3831\/10191122464_a6dab95a3b_z.jpg\" alt=\"TAN solar v DBE oil and gas 1 year\"><\/a>\r\n<p>\r\nSure, if you go back farther, solar stocks continued to drop after 2009\r\nuntil this year:<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/10191124644\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"TAN solar v DBE oil and gas 5 years\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7417\/10191124644_f63a78422b_z.jpg\" alt=\"TAN solar v DBE oil and gas 5 years\"><\/a>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/solar-crosses-nuclear.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4130\/4836747095_51036cecc1_o.png\"><\/a>\r\nBut that&#8217;s the point.\r\nThe tipping point has come.\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/already-solar-grid-parity-without-subsidies-in-india-and-italy.html\">\r\nSolar parity<\/a>\r\nwith fossil fuels has been reached (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/solar-crosses-nuclear.html\">long since reached with nuclear<\/a>).\r\nThe\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/the-cloudy-day-doesnt-last-for-an-entire-month-john-s-quarterman.html\">\r\nlong hot smoggy night of burning fossil plants is ending<\/a>\r\nand\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/solar-power-will-win-like-the-internet-did.html\">\r\nsolar power will win like the Internet did<\/a>.\r\nSoon we&#8217;ll see\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/sos-plan-to-make-the-southeast-a-net-exporter-of-the-energy-from-solar-and-wind-john-s-quarterman-so-2013-05-22.html\">\r\neven Southern Company get out in front on making Georgia and the southeast\r\na net exporter of solar and wind energy<\/a>.\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/divest-vsu-of-fossil-fuels-petition.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ash2\/546219_279652628819017_117616647_n.png\"><\/a>\r\nDoes Harvard want its endowment portfolio to be left behind?\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/divest-vsu-of-fossil-fuels-petition.html\">\r\nDoes VSU<\/a>?\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should Harvard President Drew Faust worry that &#8220;Significantly constraining investment options risks significantly constraining investment returns&#8221;? 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