Obama is fixing this. Not by lowering the cost of renewables, but by raising the price of coal.
The UK “renewables” subsidies are being curtailed by the new “conservative” government there after exceeding their ~ 3.0 budget by 1.5 billion .. and still not finishing even the beginning of the campaign target.
Australia has cut their subsidies.
Spain found that their “solar” power subsidies were so skewed that people were making more money bu running generators at night to get subsidies from the solar panels (after dark) than they were paying for the diesel fuel.
The EPA ran afoul of the law by failing to conduct a cost-benefit analysis before it acted to reduce mercury emissions from coal-power plants. There is no objective cost-benefit analysis that could justify the president’s target for renewable energy.
Obama sometimes talks about common sense. But liberals lose the common sense when it comes to energy and environmental issues such as this. It seems like common sense to most of us, to do a cost/benefit review of proposed changes such as the EPA regulations here. To enviro extremists, who become hysterical, there is no place for cost/benefit analysis of anything. They get hysterical about ice caps melting and all that, that there is no possible rational discussion about how to proceed.
There is no rational justification for policies favoring renewables
That pretty much says it all. Truth is important. Renewables have their place if someone besides taxpayers are paying the freight.
Bill Gates finally threw off his Stupid Cloud.
A Powerpoint foil set is NOT reality.
How exactly are sunlight and the wind renewed?
Seems that the term should be "unreliable energy."
Hydro-electric is renewed every time it rains and fills a lake behind a dam. Coal plants are renewed every time a new train of coal arrives. Nuclear power plants are renewed every time the rods are replenished. And they are all reliable sources of power.
Unless you are a democrat, in which case you don't need to answer to the laws of physics and thermodynamics. Because "You know better."
Some simple number-crunching on the number of gigawatts and BTU’s that are currently being used, versus those that can be generated by renewable sources, should quickly put this debate to rest.
Yeah, I know. Math is hard!
Took them 7 years to come to the obvious conclusion? The state of scientific & technological literacy in this country is appalling. What is worse, the people who should know are too busy currying political favor that they are telling politicians only what they want to hear.
Considering that we are carbon based life forms I believe calling the cost of decarbonization “astronomical” an understatement.
Man made global warming is a theory. An unproven theory. Whenever global warming is mentioned it should be described as Global Warming Theory.
They made Einstein prove his Theory of Relativity. Global Warmists should be made to prove theirs.
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