Solar fades as shale gas flares

Financial Post ^ | January 20, 2011 – 10:39 pm | Peter Foster

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx Ernest !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Paladin2]

I don’t see where it would hurt to have the capability to self generate ~4kWh on a good day.

[familyop]

Heh...Sundanzer 8.1 cu. ft. freezer — up to about $4 per month in very sunny areas at most for golf cart batteries (based on only 5-year battery life, can go to about 10 years for one who thinks). The freezer’s the big energy consumer in a properly built house with the best choices in appliances. Microwaves, washers, etc., don’t run long enough in a day to consume much. And no dryers, of course.

But that kind of low energy usage only happens in off-grid systems in very sunny, high altitude places, self-built by nerds like myself—not grid-tied systems for government welfare for politically correct, suburban, government-job-dependent fat cats (way too expensive and improperly designed).

...same with wind turbines. Those work in places that are downright scary with high winds, and only homebuilt monsters with large alternators on trailer hubs are tough enough to last.

Verdict: government-funded, corporate-government heads are retarded. Rejected, impoverished techies do rule.

[familyop]

"Shale gas supplies may last 250 years and make renewables uneconomic"

Except that your local, yocal, government-paid, multi-energy monopoly investors will fix that. Some of the retired neighbors in my rural locale will be paying about $1000 per month for heating within about a year and a quarter for propane. The shale gas drilling attempt failed, and the natural gas pipeline from over a nearby pass will be only a small part of the high cost of natural gas. ...not to mention the government defaults decades before it could possibly get here.

Most people will be in the dark, cold and out of their government jobs before the late attempts at expensive, community energy arrive.

[OBXWanderer]

Thanks to George Mitchell’s horizontal drilling technology which is now throughout the energy industry

quite a guy, Mr. Mitchell...loved his boats, particularly an old 31 Bertram with no flybridge...he wanted a newer boat in the early 80s, and Blackfin was his choice, but Blackfin didn't have a model that didn't have a flybridge.....in short, Blackfin made a boat without a flybridge...the owner?..one George Mitchell, Galveston, Texas

[glorgau]

Rejected, impoverished techies do rule.

Yep, heating with wood this year. You have to burn a _lot_ of it. I'm benefiting from the Emerald Ash Borer. However, lots of people seem to thing that just because their tree had been dead for a couple of years that the wood does not have to be seasoned.

[CPT Clay]

Shucks

I guess solar cannot compete on its own.

[Elsie]

Shale gas supplies may last 250 years and make renewables uneconomic

Hello!

They already ARE!!!