daveman
Diamond Member
The price of wind energy being below coal is because it's heavily subsidized. So is solar. And neither are reliable throughout much of the country.No one here is anti-technology.These are the exact same lame arguments we've heard wrt seat belts, motorcycle rider helmets, air bags, second hand smoke, and a whole host of other such issues. Honestly, you are such an anti-technology whiner, it really is beyond belief.
We are, however, anti-unsupportable, usustainable, unscalable, uneconomical, and unworkable technology.
You guys bitch and moan about subsidies for fossil fuels -- but wind and solar simply can't exist without them. And they never will.
Wind and solar can exist without subsidies. Subsidies were utilized to overcome inertia and get power companies to make the switch. Given that the price of wind-generated power is now below that of coal makes it ridiculous to claim they cannot profit from it. Solar has a higher initial investment but even lower maintenance and operation costs. Hydroelectric, geothermal, OTEC and nuclear powers are all used at different places around the world and make a profit for their owners. Your claims that alternative energies are unsupportable, unsustainable, unscalable, uneconomical and unworkable simply have no basis.
Something for you to think about: the prices of petroleum, coal and natural gas are going up and - in the long run - will never come back down. The costs of alternative energies ARE coming down and will continue to do so for a good long while.
They can't survive without a prop from the taxpayers.
Hydroelectric, geothermal, and nuclear are not alternative. Environmentalists oppose all three.