Posted on 10/04/2021 6:38:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
And notice the costs involved
Cheapest price I have seen for solar in GA is $16,000 after the government subsidies.
So assume it results in a 50% saving on my monthly electricity bill. Solar does not replace your elctric bill, it merely provide a 2nd power supply.
That would mean after I install it it will take a minimum of 13 years to recover the cost via lower electricity bills.
That does not include the cost of upkeep during the time I own the home.
Back to the Dark Ages. The whaling industry will be jump started.
yeah that one of the overlooked problems with “green energy”
It is much less efficient so therefore much more costly.
Higher energy costs created by shifting to “green” energy, hurt the poorest segments of a society the worse and they are the least able to absorb them
Like a big volcano eruption?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lava-from-spanish-volcano-surges-after-crater-collapse/ar-AAP6WjJ
I had a nice chat with a Georgia Power / Southern Company person in the last couple days. She is involved with the old hydro plants. Remember the full solar eclipse a few years ago? Only partial in GA, but full in KY, TN and SC.
All the hydro plants were idling at minimum output, then all ramped up big time as the eclipse hit and all the solar dropped significantly. Southern Company was very afraid they might have blackouts caused by the drop. Hydro kept that from happening, but only with good load planning for the event.
The 100% fetish is the mark of insanity.
It signals that these people are converts to Reverend Al Gore’s “climate change” religion and not people interested in conserving fossil fuels for possible use by future generations.
My grilling a steak on a charcoal fire will not doom mankind.
“America in particular uses too much energy”
Mr. Gates, here is your monthly ration book.
Mr. Gore, here is your monthly ration book.
One to a person.
No, you can’t buy other people’s coupons.
What do you not understand about equality, comrade Gore?
Denmark, the world's most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant.
It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power's unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone).
Flemming Nissen, the head of development at West Danish generating company ELSAM (one of Denmark's largest energy utilities) tells us that "wind turbines do not reduce carbon dioxide emissions."
The German experience is no different. Der Spiegel reports that "Germany's CO2 emissions haven't been reduced by even a single gram," and additional coal-and gas-fired plants have been constructed to ensure reliable delivery.
Indeed, recent academic research shows that wind power may actually increase greenhouse gas emissions in some cases, depending on the carbon-intensity of back-up generation required because of its intermittent character.
On the negative side of the environmental ledger are adverse impacts of industrial wind turbines on birdlife and other forms of wildlife, farm animals, wetlands and viewsheds.
Suck it up Greenies.
The least expensive power in the world comes from hydro electricity. Yet, typically these dams, with few exceptions(Niagara Falls, St Lawrence River, Hoover Dam) are not that close to where most of the power is consumed.
The second least expensive way to generate electricity typically has been with nuclear power. The heat from the nuclear reaction is used to heat water to steam and turn a turbine. However, most of these power plants needed to be built out in the country because of NIMBY effect. However, then you have to transmit the power of longer distances to get it to where most of the demand is.
This is why power plants were built in close proximity to cities. These power plants needed to burn some fuel, to boil water and turn a turbine. Most of these originally burned coal. Some burned natural gas where it was available by pipeline. Some burned wood waste. Some now even burn household trash. However, natural gas has become so cheap in the USA because of fracking that it is now cheaper than some nuclear plants.
Windmills also can be used to turn a turbine. However, to make them work economically they have to be huge. The bigger the better. Also, the more in one place the better. Again, most people do not a 600’ windmill in their backyard. So, the best place to build these is offshore.
Lastly is solar panels. They can be put almost anywhere. However, they only produce electricity when the sun is shining. Therefore, they make more economic sense in Santa Fe, NM than they do in London.
We all know the pitfalls of all of these types of power generation. So, the correct solution is a combination of all. When you CHOOSE to eliminate some is when the problem starts.
You need to have a method to store the power for when demand is high. This is the main problem with renewables. Not to mention the environmental impact to produce and dispose of supposed “green energy” products.
Pretty much all the rivers have been damned in developed countries. Nobody wants a nuclear reactor in the backyard.
Most people do not want windmill in their backyard. Nobody wants to live downwind from a coal fired power plant.
So, what is the alternative?
Some say thorium salt reactors?
I do not know.
However, whoever comes up with the solution deserves the Nobel Prize.
Delusional - bump for later....
Sure it is. LMAO
So in days that are both cloudy and windless no energy in Britain
Johnson lied to get to be prime minister and now is going full socialist.
And U.K. energy prices to go up 150-200% if the U.K. pushes for Johnson’s goal.
At some point this climate farce is going to collapse. Before that point people will starve, become financially stressed or bankrupt, our food supply will be stressed, all supplies and products will be in shortage and skyrocket in price.
At some point it will obvious, it may take years, but because people will see where the power and the money went, and it will be the democrat leftists and collaborators in foreign powers.
-like the CCP
-like the Russians
-like the OPEC nations,.
If at that point there are not leftists hanging from the street lamp posts, then we don’t deserve to survive as a free nation.
They won’t need any energy by 2035 because they will all freeze to death before then.
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