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FBaggins

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16. I don't see how that could be confusing.

Reply to kristopher (Reply #15)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 01:40 PM

Nov 2013

If you're forced to pay $5 for a thing that you can't store and must resell... and you can only sell it for $1... you have a problem.

Nothing new there. Most incentives cause some of the same hazard.

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German renewables are invading Poland [View all] kristopher Nov 2013 OP

BTW, Poland's per capita coal consumtion is still less than the US, Iterate Nov 2013 #1

Only because their per-capita electricity consumption is less than a third of ours. FBaggins Nov 2013 #2

Of course it's not ok. But look, there's a squirrel! Iterate Nov 2013 #5

Bravo! kristopher Nov 2013 #6

Us coal consumption has been declining in the past few years kristopher Nov 2013 #3

It peaked in 2000 at 2.014 mtoe, down to 1.603 in 2011. Iterate Nov 2013 #4

Thanks for that information kristopher Nov 2013 #7

It's because it destabilizes their grid! Yo_Mama Nov 2013 #8

Destabilizes the economics of their grid. kristopher Nov 2013 #9

Hardly FBaggins Nov 2013 #10

"Renewables don't destabilize grid economics" kristopher Nov 2013 #11

You've failed to make your case FBaggins Nov 2013 #12

To your nuclear loving mind, perhaps... kristopher Nov 2013 #13

At all really. FBaggins Nov 2013 #14

Regardless of the actual value? kristopher Nov 2013 #15

I don't see how that could be confusing. FBaggins Nov 2013 #16

You mean the way coal's price reflects its "actual value"? kristopher Nov 2013 #17

Nope. FBaggins Nov 2013 #18

You haven't answered anything. kristopher Nov 2013 #19

Of course I have... you just don't want to accept the answers. FBaggins Nov 2013 #21

Numerous studies show that Central Europe is ripe for renewables. kristopher Nov 2013 #20