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Fossil Fuels - is the USA getting left behind?

By vid1900

6 years ago


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#132 6 years ago

Without advanced energy storage (battery or some other scheme) wind and solar are of limited usefulness. Currently batteries lack capacity and are very destructive to the environment to manufacture plus they and wind turbines require exotic raw materials which are mostly mined in China. New nuclear plants are safe (pebble bed reactor) if you don't build them in areas prone to natural disasters and have proper maintenance.
Here in Florida solar would work great but it is still not anywhere near to competitive with $0.085/kWh which I am paying to FPL. Currently our biggest resource is our wastefulness. With minimal effort we could reduce energy consumption by 30-40%. Insulation, smaller cars (I know that's IMPOSSIBLE), efficient public transportation, bike lanes, etc.

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