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Too Pessimistic about Renewable Energy
Recently, Michael Noble of Fresh Energy offered a terrific post out about how renewable energy growth has far outpaced what everyone thought possible over the past decade or so. He’s writing from a Minnesota perspective:
How wrong we were to think that a $2 billion renewable energy investment would be ambitious. Today, the region supports more than $20 billion.
But we weren’t the only ones that were timid in our predictions of renewable electricity’s potential … many experts were way off on how wind and solar electricity would grow over the last decade.
Across the Southeast, utility staff and other energy experts regularly downplay the scale of the renewable energy opportunity. We all need to remind ourselves that with intent, ambition and effort, we can exceed predictions and, perhaps, meet public expectations!
One survey response from a March 2012 report by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications.
6 Comments on "Too Pessimistic about Renewable Energy"
DC on Tue, 11th Sep 2012 9:32 pm
How do you ‘somewhat’ oppose something. Your either ‘for’ something or your not. Opinions, that it to say subjective feelings not based necessarily on facts, can be subject to a sliding continuum. Being ‘somewhat’ opposed to nuclear power makes little sense in this context….
mike on Tue, 11th Sep 2012 10:10 pm
Now lets take away government subsidies and see what happens. Lets take subsidies away from farming while we’re at it and see what happens. Thats right none of these systems can run by themselves because they actually lose energy. All government does is pump a load of energy (money) from one sector into another in some vain hope that it will work, of course what it really does is make the collapse come a lot faster and harder.
SOS on Tue, 11th Sep 2012 10:19 pm
Thats exactly right mike. These sources of energy are all inheriently less efficient therefore more costly no matter how many units you produce.
A proper mix will keep costs to the consumer bearable but if the ratio of this type of inefficient energy gets to large compared to conventional sources costs to the consumer will soar.
The reason the governement is pumping this money into big alternative projects that do nothing but lose billions is to buy political power. The sylindra types are for sale. The conventional energy people cant be bought because the government is currently at war with it.
This artacle is misleading to the point it seems intentional and is therfore discredited as propaganda.
BillT on Wed, 12th Sep 2012 12:25 am
SOPS, costs are going to soar anyway. And your precious petroleum is going to be the reason why. But then, when the price gets too high, all the fraking and off-shore will be shut down as not profitable or nationalized for government use only and again, profits will disappear. The West is in collapse mode, held up by the expansion in the East. Many changes coming that will destroy ‘for profit’ Capitalism as you know it.
Harquebus on Wed, 12th Sep 2012 2:00 am
Renewable generators do not return the energy used to manufacture them. They are waste of precious fossil fuel energy. The law of diminishing energy returns.
@Kenz300. Before you go on with your bullshit, get yourself an education.
BillT on Wed, 12th Sep 2012 11:13 am
Kenz has a list of quotes that answer every problem…NOT! Reality is much different from dreaming. *