# Cost of the Iraq war in solar cells **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cost-of-the-iraq-war-in-solar-cells/404747 "2007-05-19T18:14:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cost-of-the-iraq-war-in-solar-cells/404747/21 "2007-05-20T18:31:44Z")
_ **figure9** , it is like you and your ilk to put a prize on the important things. You fail to take into consideration that the Iraqi people have been liberated and democracy is blooming in this land once torn by a soulless dictator who…_ Arrggggghhhhhhhh Phew! I suddenly felt like Dick Cheney’s spirit had possessed me. Can anyone find out if he died yet again? ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cost-of-the-iraq-war-in-solar-cells/404747/22 "2007-05-21T02:58:06Z")
Obviously if we need a place to put the solar panels, we can just go to Mars and put them there (that’ll take care of the other trillion or so). Might not get as much power out of them, and there is the problem of getting the power back to Earth. But I bet the Martians will thank us. But then it’s hard to put up solar panels when _Saddam Hussein_’s got a nuke pointed at yer array and _Osama bin Laden_’s got his finger on the button, isn’t it, hippie? Now I wonder how many nuclear reactors we could build for Iran for $500 billion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cost-of-the-iraq-war-in-solar-cells/404747.md?page=1)