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| From | jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics |
| Subject | Re: Study: Grid For Renewables Key to Cutting Emissions |
| Date | 2016-01-29 02:17 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <knuqnc-voo.ln1@mail.specsol.com> (permalink) |
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boB <boB@theresnoplacelikehome.com> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:54:52 -0000, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > >>Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Study: Grid For Renewables Key to Cutting Emissions >>>> http://www.climatecentral.org/news/new-gird-renewables-key-cutting-emissions-19953 >>> >>> >>>> Carbon dioxide emissions from generating electricity could be cut by >>>> 78 percent within the next 15 years if the country makes the same >>>> Herculean effort to expand solar and wind technology that it did to >>>> build the Interstate Highway System. >>>> >>>> That?s the conclusion of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric >>>> Administration (NOAA) study published Monday in Nature Climate >>>> Change, which shows that a new system of transcontinental >>>> transmission lines connected to wind and solar farms nationwide is >>>> the key to dramatically reducing emissions from the nation?s power >>>> plants. >>> >>> >>> We would all breath easier. >> >>Obvious nonsense. >> >>The areas where the grids are interconnected are already huge and further >>interconnections will not generate any more energy. >> >>The Interstate Highway System had an immediate and real payback to the >>national GDP as well as to the general standard of living. >> >>Wind and solar farms are money pits with no real payback to placate >>hysterical Chicken Littles. >> >>If wind and solar farms were not subsidized, there wouldn't be any. > > > Does that also mean that if oil companies weren't' subsidised that > there wouldn't be any gasoline ? Or less of it ? No. Ever heard of "windfall profits tax"? -- Jim Pennino
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Study: Grid For Renewables Key to Cutting Emissions Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-27 12:22 -0600
Re: Study: Grid For Renewables Key to Cutting Emissions jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-27 18:54 +0000
Re: Study: Grid For Renewables Key to Cutting Emissions boB <boB@theresnoplacelikehome.com> - 2016-01-28 17:55 -0800
Re: Study: Grid For Renewables Key to Cutting Emissions jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-29 02:17 +0000
Re: Study: Grid For Renewables Key to Cutting Emissions Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-01-28 22:37 -0600
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