Solar and wind energy are FALSE energy alternatives. They don’t work. That is, their cost/benefit analysis is terrible.
1. Their environmental footprints are YUGE.
2. Short term maintenance costs and long term replacement costs are unacceptable.
3. Electricity production is not constant, so they both require an equal amount of traditional energy as backup. (When the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine)
4. They are totally UNNECESSARY!
Nuclear, (or nucular if you’re a Bush), has the smallest environmental footprint.
It is self sustaining. More nuclear energy can be produced than is used to produce it.
It is safe, ask France. Before you pounce, (Chernobyl was a design disaster and the Japanese are just morons).
Peak oil is a myth. Technology, (fracking, horizontal drilling, deep water drilling, etc.), outpaces consumption and the earth is constantly, quickly, producing new oil and gas through core heat and pressure, NOT piles of grass and woolly mammoth pooh.
Man made climate change is ridiculous on it’s face. Man is insignificant in proportion to the earth’s environment.
CO2 is not pollution. The earth, (God), regulates the balance between CO2 and O2. Man doesn’t need to, and HE CAN’T, even if he wanted to.
The CO2 pollution MYTH is the main reason the left is destroying the coal industry. Coal, our cheapest and most abundant energy resource, must be utilized to the fullest. The coal industry must be revitalized. It can be safe as well as clean.
ENERGY INDEPENDENCE NOW and you don’t need or want solar and wind to accomplish it.
I had a friend that worked for a Californian solar equipment producer. He quoted me a rate that was well above what public utilities charged in Nevada. He said it only made financial sense in portions of California without local utilities, the ones that got crushed during the Grey-out Davis era.
That doesn't mean people can't still install on the grid systems, they just need to realize they are paying luxury rates for a basic public commodity. I installed a tankless water heater in my last house. The company was very up front in telling me I wouldn't make my money back. I told them I knew that, and I just wanted enough hot water for a family of five to gang rush the bathrooms in the morning. Cost analysis complete. I wanted limitless hot water and was willing to pay twice as much to get it.