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Originally Posted by Guest
"$16,000 for a solar installation with the Tesla Powerwall"
"Our analysis of the finances of Tesla’s Powerwall battery found that the payback period for purchasing Powerwall would be 38 years with on-peak rates at $0.15 per kilowatt hour and off-peak rates at $0.06 per kilowatt hour"
You'd have to save more than $100 a month on electricity costs to pay for itself in the thirteen years it takes before you have to buy new batteries.
The sun just doesn't put out enough energy to replace oil. To SUPPLEMENT it...YES. But not replace it.
Oil ALLOWED modern western civilization. We will continue to be dependent on it until a NEW "free" energy source is developed. A "Mr Fusion".
The whole CO2 thing is a hoax. They want us to conserve energy because we're at the limits of PROVIDING it in the amounts that a developing world requires. America is being brought down so the developing countries CAN develop. China uses more energy than America.
The limits to growth are limits to available energy. Once all the fields are fracked...what do we do then?
DO we NEED to cut back on our use of oil...of course...we don't disagree there. At this rate it's NOT going to last forever.
What we MUST do...is cut the worlds population back to sustainable levels. We MUST cut it by at least half.
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I didn't say tomorrow renewable would be price competitive but I did give you one country where it is price competitive. You clearly don't understand the science and I'm ok with that as long as you don't try to make scientific arguments. Gas displaced coal and wind and solar are displacing gas in certain parts of the country, all based on price. If you want cheaper electricity prices long term you should push renewables because as a new technology it will drop in price as the industry matures. If you want to give more money to the Koch brothers go for gas and oil. Those websites your reading are supported by the Koch brothers.