Posted on 09/08/2015 4:46:18 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
As Florida enviros push for their solar amendment, solar’s undesirability goes unmentioned.
The important thing to know about solar and wind power, and other so-called “renewable” sources of energy, is that they aren’t necessary. Au the contraire, their dominance of the energy mix would be a disaster for the republic. Solar and wind create trifling amounts of power at a multiple of the cost of power made available by fossil fuels.
Increased reliance on pricy power from wind and solar would drive up the overall cost of energy, which in turn would drive up the cost of everything. EVERYTHING! Not just individual power bills, which would be bad enough. It takes energy to produce, transport, and market all the goods Americans take for granted. Even our service economy is a heavy user of energy.
Wind and solar power are also unreliable. The sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. This isn’t going to change.
In a dystopian wind and solar economy, say goodbye to the supermarket, to pain-free dentistry, to air-conditioning, to the modern hospital, to night baseball. While you’re up, take the hood off your car and make it into a planter because you’ll no longer afford to drive it. A fossil-fuel-free America would become, in short order, a third-world country. Life would once again become nasty, brutish, and short. Or at least a damn sight more straitened than the prosperity contemporary Americans are used to and take as a given.
There is enough oil and gas underground in America to supply energy needs for centuries, if the Sierra Club and other Lexus Luddites would allow us to use it. The problems associated with the burning of fossil fuels have been grossly exaggerated by the political Left for ideological reasons. Those who identify themselves as environmentalists slander fossil fuels...
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I didn’t ask but I would think that it now being part of the home, it would fall into that 1% of home value, plus whatever else they choose to toss in.
hah...the LAST thing I am is a tinkerer....my brain is not normal, many things are easy to me that are hard or impossible to others, but some things that are easy to many others...like any kind of mechanical tinkering - or slalom skiing - vex me to no end.
I like that.
Not necessarily.
Crony capitalist = socialist. I’ve stopped using the term because a friend pointed that out. I like crony and I like socialism as in crony socialist, but that’s redundant. What do you think?
btw: My home owner insurancecompany just sent a policy update ... At renewal non of my solar gear, panels, inverters will be covered. I already pay $2k a year. Ha Ha.
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