Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/27/2010 11:18:29 AM PDT by Andrea19
The wind and solar industry, politicians, and environmentalists have spent the past decade perpetuating the belief that these sources of energy are cost-free and investment in this sector would result in job growth. Contrary to this narrative, wind and solar are less efficient, more expensive sources of energy whose implementation is predicated on government mandates and subsidies.
Energy costs
Wind and solar, at this point in time, are significantly less efficient than coal—the most common source of energy in the US:
Cost per megawatt hour
Read more: http://www.atr.org/wind-solar-energy-bad-deal-taxpayers-a5517#ixzz13aF58Eb9
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green=does NOT work
didn’t ATR get some big Coal industry funding recently?
if the gov was in charge of producing sand there would be a shortage in the sahara desert.
Government always sounds good, but never produces and the #$%^&% morons vote for rats.
Look...these figures prove a point that Energy Transformation is not viable.
Luckily we have some filibustering happening that eliminates any more spending on programs that pi$$ more of our money away.
Harry Reid single handedly tanked the new coal plant in Nevada and brought in windmills and solar panels.
They are still bragging about it.
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