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To: John R. (Bob) Locke
The problem with wind and solar is not that it is more expensive that gas, coal, oil etc. The problem is that wind and solar facilities can only work in addition to gas, coal, oil etc.

You can not have, for example, 90% of max capacity from fossil fuel production and 10% from renewable sources. You must have 100% available capacity from fossil fuel which you can, of course, take offline when solar or wind is available. The sunk cost of those plants does not go away when they are idle though. This means that comparing costs between fossil fuel production and renewable is meaningless. Renewable energy is always a cost added on top of the cost of producing energy from fossil fuels.

11 posted on 11/21/2004 12:32:21 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Liberalism: The irrational fear of self reliance.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Take all of themoney the are yusing to complain and spread BS and put it into a prject like Signapore does.

Singapore is 1/3 larger than it originally was. They dredge for more land. Pile the sand up, let it settle for 20 years and build on it. Meanwhile dredging up more sand and "creating" more land. Really good idea and maybe used alot more in the future.

Oh I forgot this must be doing something bad to the mud sucking, yellow belly, slack jawed dimfish.

He he he. I knew I could get a zinger in some how!


12 posted on 11/21/2004 1:14:28 AM PST by BookaT (My Cat's Breath smells like Cat Food!)
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