It's not so cheap...or accessible.
Yet Obama wants . . . even more subsidies for windmills. Because wind is free, right?
No. The cost of wind power has been stuck at three times the cost of coal power for many years, Ridley writes. And windmills don’t lack for environmental consequences. Without fossil fuels, Ridley says his native Britain would feature wind farms sprawling across 10% of the land, wildlife would be hit by the loss of estuaries, “the entire country would look like a power station, pylons would march across the uplands and convoys of trucks would cart timber along the roads. Powering the world with such renewables now is the surest way to spoil the environment.”
I believe islands like Haiti can be fully powered with renewable and affordable energy: so can individual town, cities and countries!
ReplyDeleteThe entire world needs clean and affordable energy sources.... why has the information about their availability been hidden from the public?
I am not denying third world and developing nations the right to live with a far better, cleaner and more modern standard of living. I am asking you to get your mind around the volume of fuels – beyond my own meager comprehension – that would be required to sustain such development – and then to try and calculate the amount of chemical emissions spewing into Earth’s atmosphere.
Currently, many different sources of ‘cleaner fuels’ are being developed around the world. The hope seems to be that in time, these alternative sources will take over from some of our reliance on fossil fuels, which contribute to pollution and sickness. They are not inexpensive, and neither are they the complete answer to a worldwide need for a clean, renewable and affordable, alternative energy source.
There are other sources, not currently being discussed in the public forum.
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