I think the whole issue is shit because everyone is being conned by these groups that need money for their pissy little projects, like solar energy and other crap. There are only two forms of reliable energy, coal fired and nuclear. Solar is unreliable becuase you need these huge fucking panels to collect the heat, and most of it is lost in the transfer to the batteries. Wind farms are pretty much the same, because you would need a shitload of turbines to get a small amount of power. The coal will never run out, because with vulcanization and compression, coal is being produced all the time, and regardless what those fucktards say, there is enough oil and coal left to last for approximately the next 500 years. Nuclear fusion energy is cleaner, but seeing as nobody has done the research on it, and everybody thinks that anyone with uranium is planning WW3, no-one want to try it. Ethanol could be a good alternative for petrol, given that most cars ran on it back in the 1930s and 40s. It wasn't until the car companies changed their engines and the fuel companies changed their fuel around the time of the petrol crisis in the 70s that everybody became totally petrol reliant. LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas) is half the price of unleaded petrol, but not many people have the sense to convert. Sure, we are running a bit low with water, but it's cyclical, and this global warming crap is a scare campaign by idiots who know fuck all about historical weather patterns. So I think we have a long way to go yet before we have to worry. What we can do, is to clean up the pollution in the streets by getting rid of the litter and Stop upgrading things just for the sake of fashion.
I think that solar energy works pretty well if you understand how to make effective use of it. Solar calculators work pretty well and many people make effective use of passive solar energy to heat their homes
Wind energy actually works great here. Here, in some cases, it is more cost-effective than the alternative, except that the power company charged more when wind energy became cheaper because of an idea that people who opt for wind energy actually want to pay more rather than pay the actual cost.
I wonder if you realize how much power is generated by a single turbine on a wind farm? Those turbines are
gigantic! It is an oversized load for a trailer to carry just one of the three turbine blades. They don't look so big way up in the air.
The 165-MW Colorado Green Wind Farm, Prowers County, Colorado Photo: American Wind Energy Association
Somerset Wind Farm, Somerset, Pennsylvania Each turbine has a generating capacity of 1.5-megawatts and generates on average enough electricity to serve the equivalent of 400 homes or more. Photo: American Wind Energy Association
Here is a turbine blade on a trailer:
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"Is she gone yet?"