To the doubters of global warming, would you buy renewable energy?
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 at
12:17 am
I hear you, you are sick of Al Gore and aren't convinced in the science behind global warming. But would you buy renewable energy anyway, since it pollutes less? Even if it cost a little more? Say extra a month for 200KwH if your Electric Company offered it? It would be nice if congress passed a law that required Electric Companies to offer renewable energy so that at least you would have the option to buy renewable if you wanted to?
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Although I am not a doubter of Global Warming, there is a limit to how much extra I would be willing to pay for renewable energy, even though I am a fan of renewable energy..
Fortunately the cost of production for electricity produced by wind is approximately 4 cents per kilowatt hour which makes it very competitive with energy produced by fossil fuels.
However for electricity produced by solar photovoltaic cells the cost of production is over 10 times that largely because of the huge capital costs for a system that produces relatively small amounts of electricity.
The cost of production of electricity produced by solar photovoltaic cells is over 40 cents per kilowatt thour.
The maximum amount of money that I am willing to pay for ecectricity is approximately 15 cents per kilowatt hour which makes electricity produced by wind possible, but not electricity produced by solar photovoltaic cells.
I also am not willing to go along with a subsidy for electricity produced by solar photovoltaic cells.
Any method of electricity production must stand on its own economically without subsidies.
Our electrical energy supplier here in Texas does offer so-called green energy in the form of wind energy for a higher fee than regular energy. Unknown to most people, Texas produces more electrical power produced by wind farms than any other state. And, we are quite proud of that, I’m told. I purposely don’t buy this green energy because I think the green movement is filled by a bunch of communist pinko lackeys and led by the non-entity of Al Gore. And, I believe that global warming is a crock of crap designed to cripple the U.S. economy by Al Gore and the other idiots in this worldwide bowel movement.
Of course. Just because we question some of the data and assumptions used to come up with the theory of CO2 caused warming, has nothing to do with our agreement that global warming is occurring. Just because we don’t bow down to some politician does not mean we are not very concerned with pollution and our environment.
I hate pollution. I hate it that we waste energy while being dependent on foreign oil.
I hate even more "environmentalists" that spread untruths about the attributes of alternative energy sources and blame the entire problem on simply some sort of plot by the government and oil companies. I spent my entire career in the energy industry and there are many, many fine engineers and scientists that have been working on all forms of alternatives for many, many years. There is no plot! There is no buy out by the oil companies! It is BS.
The terrible thing is that making people believe these myths just leads people to think the problem isn’t real, and all we have to do is everybody convert to electric cars and turn our house into solar and all the problems will go away. NOT TRUE. Study, learn the facts, and stop spreading myths.
Sure, for me that’s more like $2 but you still have a significant capacity problem.
I do buy it, I would be opposed to any government mandate that it be made available. Let the market decide. If it can compete, then private industry will supply it.
No, if it cost .01 cent more no, not to susport your religion, you new fad, your sick, sick joke. If and only if it where cheeper, which it is not, nor can it be, nor will it be, it is all a pipe dream.