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Comment on Europeans find their high cost sustainable energy policies are fiscally unsustainable by EnerGeoPolitics

EnerGeoPolitics — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:13:54 +0000

I am a big fan of distributed solar – people like yourself, people who put solar panels on their homes/businesses, etc. “Big Solar,” it seems to me, cannot exist without massive taxpayer subsidies and is at best a boondoggle and at worst a potential cesspool of corruption . . . and, in many cases, we are seeing that you can eliminate the word “potential” from that statement.

Comment on Europeans find their high cost sustainable energy policies are fiscally unsustainable by kir Kehcsam

kir Kehcsam — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:30:30 +0000

Actually, I’ve been using solar for 51 years, since my mom had me hang up clothes for her on a clothes line. Maybe it works better if we believe the Global Warming advocates than it did for my mom and for moms since people first started putting on clothes. Inexpensive and very low tech. I also heat my home with solar…my south facing wall is covered with large windows and it was 22 F last night. I cool my house (I live in the Mojave Desert) in the summer with large shade trees. We open windows on summer nights to allow cool air in, again “low tech”.
I bought my first solar panels in the 1970s when they were really expensive and not very effective…looks like that is still the case. The only thing I use them for today is to run the pump for my hot tub. The water heats as it travels through black plastic tubing. That’s about the only ‘costly’ high tech solar I use.
Low tech passive solar is the way to go, even wind power is really using low tech solar since the wind is caused by solar heating of the earth. What have we forgot in this “modern” world.

Comment on Europeans find their high cost sustainable energy policies are fiscally unsustainable by kir Kehcsam

kir Kehcsam — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:16:20 +0000

Solyndra

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Shockingly bad Anti-fracking hatchet piece at EER « — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:30:40 +0000

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BP projects North American energy self-sufficiency by 2030 « — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:18:02 +0000

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BP projects North American energy self-sufficiency by 2030 « — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:17:59 +0000

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BP projects North American energy self-sufficiency by 2030 « — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:17:57 +0000

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BP projects North American energy self-sufficiency by 2030 « — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:17:55 +0000

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Terror as geostrategic lever « — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:50:25 +0000

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