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In reply to the discussion: Germany generating so much windpower today that price for electricity will fall... below zero [View all]Snackshack
(2,587 posts)33. As long as the
Energy industry (nuclear/coal/oil/gas) in this country is driven by profit we will continue to be told that reneweable/clean energy does not work...because it gets dark once a day or cloudy or not always windy...that it is bad and have roadblock after roadblock put in place to slow it down like taxing people extra who install solar panels on their homes. The best argument I have heard by a person against wind was that wind farms would create so much drag on the planet that it would be knocked out of its orbit.
Eventually the harsh reality of climate change will force the switch to renewable energy but by then it will be too late (it already is) to make a difference.
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Germany generating so much windpower today that price for electricity will fall... below zero [View all]
KelleyKramer
Oct 2017
OP
We have some wind turbines here in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Altamont Pass...
iluvtennis
Oct 2017
#7
Those ugly turbines littering the hillsides in the photo you posted are mostly dead now.
hunter
Oct 2017
#23
Their are still thousands of dead 20th century wind turbines littering the hillsides of California.
hunter
Oct 2017
#38
Politically powerful people see the Altamont Pass wind turbines from the highway...
hunter
Oct 2017
#48
You're right about that. If it doesn't mean ripping off the masses for huge profits, then forget it.
YOHABLO
Oct 2017
#12
There's no way Germany can break it's dirty coal habit and remain a major industrial economy.
hunter
Oct 2017
#25
Speaking of Fukushima:Are millions of gallons of radio active waste still spilling into the Pacific?
YOHABLO
Oct 2017
#13
Battery farms. Once battery or solid state storage has developed enough, as Telsa is
Fred Sanders
Oct 2017
#21
Our private-enterprise electric utilities companies WILL NEVER LOWER CONSUMER COSTS, EVER!!!
WinkyDink
Oct 2017
#27
Hey, we were promised "electrical energy too cheap to meter" back in 1954. n/t
PoliticAverse
Oct 2017
#29