Here's a net energy analysis of Solarex's Solar Breeder...
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978pvsp.conf..908W Solarex's Solar Breeder PV production plant has been in operation since 1982.
http://www.humboldt.edu/~serc/refaqs.html note: unlike the made-up NJ molten salt breeder reactor - the Solarex plant is "real".Global PV production is growing exponentially at double digits per year - it's a lucrative *rapidly* growing multi-billion dollar per year business.
Global installations of PV now exceed 6 GWe - and produce much more electricity each year than a "single natural gas plant".
Solar thermal installations currently exceed 13 GWt - that's equivalent to the thermal output of four 1000 MW power plants.
http://gsr.ren21.net/index.php?title=1._Global_Market_O... Last year, global PV production exceeded 2200 MW and Germany alone installed 920 MW of PV.
Multi-MW PV arrays are in operation in Europe and Asia and under construction here in the US.
The claim that "Solar power can't even power the servers for the websites now running to promote it." is laughable nonsense and false.
Solar is not "a failure".
Solar - not nuclear - is the future and the savior of the planet.