You may not be fond of coal if it's in your Christmas stocking, but some see it as a useful and beneficial source of energy. Recently more energy companies have opted to build coal-burning plants, and experts are debating whether this is a viable solution to our energy needs. They say America runs on coal, but are we running in the right direction?
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Since Re costs are mostly initial installation and maintaining them, they produce many more jobs, instead of making a few rich, many dead both mining and pollution, but nice outdoor jobs instead.
If you add the real costs in health, acid rain, radioactive emmissions into the price of coal, oil then RE is so much cheaper.
Even with these fossil fuel subsidies, wind, tidal, solar thermal generators, biomass can beat oil, coal in costs. I can easily build them at rates lower than coal plants/kwhrs output which is about $4k/kwhr now. But that doesn't include coal which will only go up in price, it's shipping, ect.
Now Fla has net metering if start up loans are available I'll be able to put 50 people to work in 6 months myself and many more as the business grows.
None of this takes new tech.
Instead of coal, the best energy source is that you don't use. Retro fitting homes, business with insulation, Ewindows, ect can make jobs now and save trhe cost of plants and their fuel. Last yr here we used 2% less electricity.
Jerryd
- jerryd
October 29, 2008 7:15PM
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