Posted on 03/13/2012 10:15:47 AM PDT by null and void
Fortunately, a non-biased source shows where our energy comes from:
https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2010/images/energy-flow-annotated.pdf
Of the 98 quadrillion BTUs (”quads”) of energy produced in 2010, solar made up all of 0.1%, up 0% from 2009 and up 22% from 2008. So when you contribute negligible amounts of power, who cares that it is up 22% in 2 years!
Wind power produced a whopping 0.94% in 2010, up from 0.74% in 2009 and up from 0.51% in 2008. So wind generation has gone up 83% in 2 years. However, it still generates less than 1% of all our power, again, a negligible amount.
Exit question - what has been the cost to taxpayers to increase the amount of wind and solar power generation? What is the cost per BTU generated?
Yes. My array is fully paid off in terms of reduced energy bills. It is still functioning. Not much bang for the buck, and there would have been better investments, but it’s pure (minuscule) profit from here on.
Copyrighted cartoon, I guess.
It was funny and spot on, though...
If only the internet was run on solar power... then the comments would stop.
This article:
this report from The Solar Foundation, which reports that there were more than 100,000 jobs in the American solar industry as of August 2011?
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This from google:
The oil and natural gas industry supports more than 9.2 million U.S. jobs.
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Yea .....Rush is an idiot (sarc)
Copyrighted cartoon at #8, I guess.
It was funny and spot on, though...
Get the straight jacket. Oh, I also believe that there are over 10,000 windmills that have been abandoned. Solar only works in limited ways, ie there are sizable constraints.
it is not self sustaining.
Solar is just a taxpayer leech.
if they want to be viable then they need to BE VIABLE.
VERY sizable constraints. Still one can buy a LOT of solar for the cost of stringing a mile of power lines...
VERY sizable constraints. Still one can buy a LOT of solar for the cost of stringing a mile of power lines...
I got that email too. It’s not the first time Frank Andorka has p***ed me off.
Well, it DID come from “Solar Power World” y’know...
How true.
I figured a little sunshine would be a good disinfectant here...
So that explains it.
A true DORK.
Standard liberal canard, and like most liberal canards, totally false
Northwestern IN now has a significant wind farm. North of Lafayette, it's turbines as far as the eye can see. In one recent family trip through the area my 10 year old daughter asked, “Daddy how many houses do one of those make electricity for?” I answered, “As long as the wind is blowing, and depending on the temperature and season 1 to 3.”
My 10 year old then said, astonished, “You mean we'd have to put one in our back yard just to power our own house?” To which my wife replied, “Yes and on calm days, you and your brothers would be on electric generator cycles peddling till you died so your father could watch the news.”
My 10 year old immediately saw the absurdity. But our president and the author of this waste of ink can't seem to grasp the economics.
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