larry: My main problem with “green energy” is that it isn’t all that “green” and is being sold as the safe, clean, and easy alternative to nuclear, coal and petroleum. A point that I make is that if we are going to subsidize something, it should be coal power - - old coal plants are very dirty, new ones are much, much cleaner, we have the coal and nearly all of the necessary infrastructure here already, and by encouraging the building of high-tech coal plants in return for conversion or decommissioning of old ones we make far more and far faster progress in reducing emissions of all kinds.
I fully agree with you about coal plants, we need more of them, and now with the new bio technology of using green algae to eat the CO2 emissions, we can get even more energy from them.
British Petroleum Oil Company recently put up 600 million dollars to do green algae research This will pay off big time. All the oil companies are on board, but BP is the leader in investment.
Here is a little secret; two nuclear plants that I know of are expanding production significantly. Cant tell you where they are, for obvious reasons, but it is the real deal.