Renewables are no longer ‘alternative.’ Fossil fuels are ‘legacy.’
Renewables are no longer ‘alternative.’ Fossil fuels are ‘legacy.’
“The shape of the future is becoming clearer, as first coal, and now oil and gas, give way to solar, wind and battery power. Can I interest you in a soot-belching coal plant? Thought not. How about a tar sands pipeline or long trains of coal or Arctic drilling?
How about mobile, distributed, connected, smart and, oh yeah, clean, solutions that are only getting better and cheaper?…”
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No, no & no to those choices Wasim Muklashy!
alternative – legacy – tipping point
The fossil fuel industry is becoming what the source of their profits are: extinct.
Set aside environmental concerns for a few moments.
Its those Free Market forces that is killing them off. Solar generated energy is now the cheapest form of energy. Consumers will not pay more for their electrons than they have to, and so, they will demand cheaper electricity.
The prices for electric vehicles keeps going down, and some governments are giving incentives to people who buy them. In British Columbia, where I live, people can get up to CDN$11,000 knocked off the price of a new EV, making them viable competition to gas powered vehicles.
It costs about CDN$40 to fill the tank of a gas powered car but as little as one-tenth that to “fill up” an electric powered car. Who’s going to choose to pay ten times as much to fuel their daily commute than they have to?
And then there’s the convenience, another big factor in consumer adoption. There you are, the proud owner of a brand new electric vehicle. You plug it in at night and let it charge while you sleep. Next morning, do your thing, hop in the car and go to work, passing all those other guys who are filling their gas tanks standing in the rain, snow, cold, wind, heat.
And then there’s home use. Put up solar panels on your roof and you will see your electricity bill go down. If you are fortunate enough to live in a place like BC, you can even sell your surplus energy to the utility company. Which would you rather receive, a bill for your electricity or a credit?
One other factor to be considered. National security. To be honest, I am against large scale solar and wind farms. They make nice, big, fat targets for both terrorists and Mother Nature. But how do you target the energy generating capabilities of a nation if everybody is generating their own electricity?
Go renewables