What we all neglect to take into consideration in the cost of energy production is the "collateral damage". It is true that close to 50 percent of all electrical power generation comes from burning coal. Do we count the environmental costs? The irrevocably altered and destroyed mountains? The affects of carbon emissions upon our planet and all its inhabitants? The health costs of degraded air? Degraded water quality? Damage to fisheries and forests ?
Most of us are very short sighted and selfish when we figure the cost of the electricity we consume. We need to expand our consciousness to realize the costs all beings on our little planet pay for our heavily subsidized "cheap" electricity. When you add the environmental subsidy to carbon (and nuclear) produced electricity it is plain that power generated from renewable wind, solar and other non carbon or fusion sources are by far a much better buy. Philip On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 17:47 -0700, Lew Hodgett wrote: > > > Basically about $0.14/KWH which is in line with the rest of the > country > except those subsidized area such as TVA, hudro in the NW, etc. -- Philip Lange AE4OV USSV ORYOKI Edenton, NC There is no sense in having a plan if you're not going to pretend to follow it. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
