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  Vapor Jobs

  "Green Energy" is currently more costly than conventional generation sources. That's a fact. The objective should be to decrease costs for business, industry and consumers, thereby freeing up capital for innovation and other productive purposes.

  Following the "green energy" line of logic, why not require all elevators to be run by an operator or two, thus putting more people to work? Just plain dopey.

  The power industry has worked hard on decreasing costs for the end user. That should be the driver for all forms of energy production, and on-going subsidies and "bail-outs" should not be provided to any form of any generation.  

  Wind, solar, etc have the potential to be competitive in certain applications but renewable energy can not replace our existing power plants. Do the math!

  Strikes me that "taking-money-out-of-Peter's-pocket-(i.e. business, industry and consumer)-to-pay-Paul (aka subsidized producers)" is not going to stimulate the economy. Just another ill-conceived "bail-out" foisted upon us by the government.

  If you actually want to quickly stimulate the economy, reduce taxes. That is the most efficient mechanism to quickly jump start the economy, as demonstrated repeatedly by history.

  The government is a grossly inefficient means of quickly and efficiently doing anything; it uses other peoples money, gives it to other people, and is virtually unaccountable for what it does.On Big Coal's far-out proposal for an economic stimulus posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago 4 Responses

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  Cost of Clean Energy

  
  The "recycle energy" is generally cogeneration where energy from an industrial source is also used for electrical generation, creating chilled water for say air conditioning, etc. The applications are quite limited and thus "recycle energy" is not amendable for large scale use.

  Unclear how the "costs" of generation were created; data seems inconsistent and unclear whether comparisons are "apples-versus-apples". On Proposed renewable-energy bill is better than nothing posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago 26 Responses

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  Coal in Question

    At the risk of pointing out the obvious, attempting to bury stupefying amounts of CO2 is simply not practical. Pursuing alternative technological paths would yield a better solution; as in avoid producing so much CO2 in the first place. On Is coal with carbon capture and storage a core climate solution? posted 1 year, 2 months ago 24 Responses