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bizorky
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It's coming from the same grid as all the nukes, gas and coal. For all you know, that's what you are getting your electricity from, and are just being charged for the cost of hydro and wind.
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TdotTrickyRicky
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This comment is fully anecdotal from my own experience travelling in Germany on a few occasions:
On the north sea coast the wind blows nice and proper fueling those turbines in Germany and Denmark right and good. Flying over central Germany on the other hand I have never seen so many lifeless seemingly useless wind turbines. Now of course they must have been put there for a reason but I couldn't help thinking to myself how it was great that Germany was advancing the green agenda and yet my suspicion was that there was more good intent than actual electricity being generated.
On the north sea coast the wind blows nice and proper fueling those turbines in Germany and Denmark right and good. Flying over central Germany on the other hand I have never seen so many lifeless seemingly useless wind turbines. Now of course they must have been put there for a reason but I couldn't help thinking to myself how it was great that Germany was advancing the green agenda and yet my suspicion was that there was more good intent than actual electricity being generated.
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Chuck100
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It's better to conserve energy than to develop greener ways of generating it. Let's say I was currently sitting at an LCD monitor, with the thermostat set to 20, all natural lighting, with properly insulated walls and windows, and new appliances running in another room. I'd be using 50% less energy than status quo. Less consumption means less windmills and such have to be built to achieve the same dependency on renewable energy.
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afransen TO
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I agree completely, Chuck. It is entirely possible to drastically reduce our power requirements by adopting existing technologies in several different areas. Take small appliances for example. California has pretty stringent standards for these, and it would be fairly trivial for us to simply adopt those standards. The products already exist!
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AlchemisTO
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It's coming from the same grid as all the nukes, gas and coal. For all you know, that's what you are getting your electricity from, and are just being charged for the cost of hydro and wind.
Well, yes, but I still think it's a better and more direct way to make an investment in green energy sources than to rely on the government.