Politics of Energy Message Board

To: Eric who wrote (30358)	3/15/2012 4:32:33 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 39816

Not a problem at all for me. You can just go ahead and pay an ever increasing electrical bill! Realistically, for the foreseeable future, Solar is a daytime-only proposition until someone creates a cost-effective way of conserving the energy. Even then, reliability would be a problem for large-scale deployment. Aside from that fact, there is also the fact that it just costs too damned much. Perhaps that will change someday, but the idea that you're going to power the country to any significant extent on huge subsidies of cost-prohibitive technologies is ridiculous. As to wind, I have no issue with it but once again, you can only mitigate a small fraction of our power requirements with it. At the end of the day you need hydro, nuclear and fossil fuels to carry the vast majority of the burden. As of now, and for the next decade or two, there is nothing remotely on the horizon that would change this basic fact of physics and economics. PS. You powering your home on so-called renewables that you paid way too much for is nothing at all like like generating power to run an industrial facility like an aluminum processing plant or a chemical factory or any other heavy industry.