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badtoworse

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3. "Clean, renewable and cheap energy"?

Reply to Stan Smith (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 09:14 PM

Mar 2012

Renewable energy is not cheap; it's not without its own environmental impacts and we will not have an electric grid that can accept large amounts of renewables and remain stable anytime soon. Even the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration is projecting we will still be generating 35% or so of our electricity with coal in 2035. IIRC, the projection for renewables was about 15%. Personally, I think they are wrong about that, but not because renewables are going to solve our problems or gain greater market share. Natural gas is getting so cheap that renewables won't be able to compete.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's not going to happen regardless of who gets elected.

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