Advantages of Renewable Energy

GW/cc solutions -
Try this on for a solution to global warming - the federal and provincial governments declared global warming a 'national emergency' that required all budget surpluses [federal and provincial] to be directed towards renewable energy projects of wind and solar.

They could begin by setting up a solar panel factory to reduce costs we will pay for solar panels by about 1/3rd. This could create 1000s of NEW jobs too.

Then, install those solar panels everywhere they can be put - parking lots, housetops, buildings, marginal farmlands, etc. and watch the economic benefits flow to the people who paid for it - taxpayers!!

The big advantage is that once set up, these electricity producing systems will provide us with electrical power that is more or less FREE for 25 or more years, continuously. Maintenance costs are very small, and with no need for added fuels as with coal-fired generators; solar power is basically free electricity once set up.

It will not be enough of course, but even at just 10% of the nations electrical needs it will be enough to cover the "peak power period" each day, where so many coal fired generators are fired up to meet the high demand. That will reduce emissions right away.

When the capacity get to be 50% of Canada's needs, we will find that our power bills are half, because we are now supplying our own power via the renewable energy projects, all paid for and therefore no financing costs. The only power we pay for is the other 50% that private industry is selling to us.

This does break the mold of capitalism and privatisation, but in light of global warming and the refusal of "private power producers" to get on the ball and reduce emissions, this is the way we must do it now. It is the power producers own fault - they could have started going to renewables or otherwise reducing emissions in 1990, but instead they chose to pay for denials based on fake science.

So fug 'em - let us now end the windfall of selling electricity through a single corporate entity that we all pay into for something we all use that WE could be producing for ourselves and reduce our cost by half.

Oh ya, and we also solve global warming this way too [a major part of it, at least]

Maybe you are on to something.

How many percents of required electricity are possible to gain by renewable energy?
Do you think it will be possible to replace nuclear by renewable energy in the future?

Maybe it would be a good decision for Japan – develop renewable instead of nuclear energy.
I wonder, why have they made so many nuclear stations while they have so many earthquakes? And why they’ve built them on the coast? They didn’t know about tsunami?

In an ideal world, we wouldn't even use hydroelectricity. All it would take is a surprise attack or even terrorism; as terrorist themselves will eventually get cruise missiles, and something like the W.A.C. Bennett Dam would break and kill thousands.



I would stick with wind and solar

I'll lend you a gas genny for windless cloudy days.

I would say that evidence is scanty at best. And I do mean best.

Solar energy farms and wind turbine farms use up native animal habitat and block native animal migrations. That is why they will be tied up in litigation under the Endangered Species Act, and a host of other environmental laws until they become uneconomical and the proponents just go away. Renewables and alternatives have no future in America.