| |

Wind And Solar Will Soon Become The ‘Least-Cost Option’ – Yahoo Finance

Wind And Solar Will Soon Become The ‘Least-Cost Option’ – Yahoo Finance:

It is interesting how quickly the prices of wind and solar have been dropping and are expected to continue.

Obviously, these must be only a part of the solution, unless batteries get to be a whole lot better, a whole lot faster. (Maybe?). The wind doesn’t always blow, and the sun doesn’t always shine.

One savings for solar, is that it doesn’t need to be done remotely. The transport/distribution costs can be much lower. Both sun & wind do not require the massive volumes of water that conventional fossil and nuke need. (Except for the manatees, there is no real reason to heat up rivers and lakes.)

Those folks in the coal industries, even in China, are soon going to find that they are missing the boat. Coal is not sustainable. Once people start to think harder and longer about the externalities costs of coal, it is going to continue the downward spiral from favor.

‘via Blog this’

Similar Posts

  • | | |

    Falling Chinese Coal Consumption and Output Undermine Global Market – WSJ

    Falling Chinese Coal Consumption and Output Undermine Global Market – WSJ: Finally, Finally, Finally… China has finally started to cut back on it’s production and use of dirty coal. China now consumes far more than half of the world’s coal. It’s a perfect time for them to do so, with all energy prices so low, the Chinese economy growing slow(er) and the costs/consequences of pollution from coal becoming more and more conspicuous. It is also…

  • Why the World Bank Is Taking On Climate Change – NationalJournal.com

    Why the World Bank Is Taking On Climate Change – NationalJournal.com: “w­w­w.K­E­P­2.c­o­m” Caral Davenport of the National Journal spoke with Rachel Kyte, the World Bank’s vice president of sustainable development, about the economic impact of climate change. The world bank is taking some rather aggressive action.  (Also watch the debate on global warming that follows. Hmmm?.) Some of us would argue, that if you don’t want governments to take more active roles in sustainability, then we…

  • |

    Oil & Gas Spills in North America Since 2010

    A question I sometimes ask of people who think that fossil fuels are here forever more and that electrification of everything will never happen…  Has there ever been an oil spill in Yellowstone National Park? If so, how many? The answer I get surprisingly often is “none”. It is, after all, a National Park, right?  ArcGIS does a map overlay with the data of your choice. In this case the data is documented oil and…

  • |

    Power Struggle: How the Energy Market Could Shift in 2016 – Bloomberg Business

    Power Struggle: How the Energy Market Could Shift in 2016 – Bloomberg Business: Wow. Absolutely perfect assessment of the energy world, past and future. With pretty graphics to go along with the trends in energy. So what will be the energy source(s) of the future. The one thing for sure, is that it won’t be coal. As the rest of the world gets out of coal, so will the 2.3B people in China and India….

  • California Becomes First State to Mandate Solar on New Homes – Bloomberg

    California Becomes First State to Mandate Solar on New Homes – Bloomberg: California is 1/3 of the US economy and probably 1/3 of the US housing market. So, when California voted today to have mandatory solar on most new construction houses, this blows the top off of the non-solar rooftop. Headlines read that the CA house will now cost about an additional $10,000 to build with the energy efficiency and solar roof mandates. This Bloomberg…

  • That soda will kill ya!

    Sodas will kill you, it seems. Sugar, hfcs, or artificial sweerners, all will shorten your life.! This massive study in Europe followed almost a half million people for an average of 16 years, analyzing death rates. Drinking two or more sodas was correlated to many types of fatal illnesses. Other studies have shown links to cancers and other ails. Doctors recommend water instead. Meanwhile, drinking a glass of beer or wine increases your life and…