Other than a dust-off occasionally solar panels have no moving parts and require no maintenance. They are generally accepted to have at least a 30 year lifespan and the cost per-watt is rapidly approaching parity with convention (ie coal) electricity. Not there yet but an awful lot closer than it was even just 15 years ago. We've gotten a lot of wind capacity put up in my area in the last couple years 7.5Mw in 5 towers. Powers a high school, community college and prison. The electric company dragged their feet badly on each one. The prison was last and the state had to finally threaten National Grid pretty seriously before it got going. I think the turbines were up almost 2 years before they started turning.
They all laughed at Carl Daimler too, who wanted a gasoline car when you could have a horse? -Curt Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:28:20 -0500 From: OK Don <okd...@gmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] People are generally holding on Message-ID: <canzcij9fc75dzltaek6_nct-ux221weu1zodjjm0qt0c41r...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Not when you add in the impacts and costs to produce and maintain those solar cells and wind turbines. I have the option to buy wind energy and it cots more than the coal and natural gas produced electricity. Not a lot, but still more. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
