Climate Change? Nahhh ...

I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. But they’re manufactured tremendous — if you’re into this — tremendous fumes. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint — fumes are spewing into the air. Right? Spewing. Whether it’s in China, Germany, it’s going into the air. It’s our air, their air, everything — right?

 

It’s like people think that profit motive doesn’t exist the minute it’s not oil.

If solar could do it, it’d have done it already.

 

Profit motive, you say?

https://ogeenergy.gcs-web.com/news-...nths-operation-oge-solar-farm-provides-deeper

 

FL just passed a law that will reduce the compensation solar owners get from producing energy and selling it to FPL. It would cost FPL hundreds of millions over the next six years. The legislature happily passed the bill which reduces compensation for solar owners and increased fees. The bill was written by FPL.

 

How much does sunshine cost per barrel?

 

"Solar power batteries are better than ever," Tom Swift charged.

 

The way it works here, if you generate more solar power than you consume (such as during the long, sunny summer days in Eastern Washington), the power company buys the excess electricity and gives you a corresponding credit in the winter, when there’s less sunlight.

This helps the homeowner and helps the power company have more capacity in the summer, when demand is greater.

 

That's what FPL did it's best to eliminate

 

There are reasonable arguments for and reasonable arguments against the scheme Florida is (apparently) replacing. And these arguments, both fer and agin', don't emanate from predictable quarters. I'm just spit-balling here, but perhaps "net metering" is not among the exceedingly rare economic phenomena that are immune from the "tradeoffs, tradeoffs, tradeoffs" reality of this vale of tears.

 

"The sun always shines on my solar farm," Tom Swift beamed.

 

The way it works here is that they give you much less than what you'd get for your power into the grid in other states, plus you get hung with various fees and taxes. There are no incentives to add solar, and fewer advantages than elsewhere. The Alabama Public Utilities Commission is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alabama Power.

 

So wait.

The development of alternative energy sources is sometimes impeded by business and government?

I'm shocked.*


*but only in a very safe, low voltage, low wattage, low amperage kind of way.