Re: solar moving forward to challenge filthy fossil fuels....

On 17 Oct 2008 19:53:21 GMT, Bert Hyman <bert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

abelard3@xxxxxxxxxxx (abelard) wrote in
news:rrohf4pjpphi9muuk87v7ugl5hjiud2imq@xxxxxxx:


http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/50641/story.htm
"US producers of solar power will no longer need federal subsidies
within eight years because by then solar power will cost less than
electricity generated by conventional power plants, industry players
said this week.

That's easy if you make generating power by other means expensive
enough through regulation.

Our local power company just tore down a perfecly good coal-fired
power plant and replaced it with one which burns natural gas, of all
things. When the cost of the natural gas I use to heat my home goes
up, I'll know who to blame.

natural gas is far cleaner than coal.....

but you are now living through the end of the filthy fossil
fuel age....
http://www.abelard.org/briefings/energy-economics.php
the quicker it ends the better

as the saying has it...
the stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones

They did get a number of good youtube videos of the smoke stack
demolition though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pozEcaz4opA

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