Well Now Montana Writer
Since Gore has the money to blow on the neat green stuff he can flaunt it. But for most people, some green options will always be beyond their financial reach, especial if Gore has his carbon neutral mandated way.
The fact is that wind and solar farms can’t harvest enough energy to replace the energy density of coal or oil to support the current population much less the projected growth. The projected energy production of either wind or coal is mostly inflated and projected on expectation of delivery.
Fact is they have been working on solar for over 60 years now and it has not become an economical reality. Without subsidies and tax breaks solar and wind would not be undertaken by investors as mainstream power sources. A residential solar energy system typically costs about $8~10 per Watt. Where government incentive programs exist, together with lower prices secured through volume purchases, installed costs as low as $3~4 watt, 10~12 cents per kilowatt hour can be achieved. Without incentive programs, solar energy costs (in an average sunny climate) range between 22-40 cents/kWh for very large PV systems. And currently, wind receives 14 times and more the subsidy paid for nuclear and a whopping 53 times that of coal.
Currently this is the return we get on our investment in Congress. A Berkley professor even admitted that he found the cost for a PV installation ranges from nearly $86,000 to $91,000, while the value of the power produced ranges from $19,000 to $51,000. And solar and wind probably won’t be cost efficient over fossils for the next ten+ years.
That leaves nuclear which can supply us with energy for the next 100+ years if done right with level IV technology. When properly managed their safe, efficient and reliable. there would be next to rill Chernobyl or terrorist incidents with series IV reactors and beyond. those who say they are just don’t really understand the technology.
