BbhunjiEssay Preview: BbhunjiReport this essayWe rightly no longer expect much when it comes to industrys willingness to take on a tough fight, particularly in the face of such a shrill attack machine. In Europe, many big businesses can be forgiven for having decided that the fight there is, at least for now, lost and trying to make the best of a bad situation. Thats not what we face here, however, because we havent adopted this agenda. The big businesses pushing it — and most businesses involved are doing precisely that — do so because they have designed some scheme aimed at capitalizing off of the energy scarcity agenda. Enron was the pioneer, pushing Kyoto before there was a Kyoto, after acquiring the worlds largest windmill company and a half-share in the worlds largest solar panel company; these are financial black holes without massive subsidies and mandates, which is precisely what the Kyoto agenda promises. Enron had the worlds second-largest gas pipeline network, the cost of space on which would be dearly expensive once coal was regulated out of viability. They set up a trading floor to play bookie to millions of sales of carbon dioxide “credits”. All of these elements of the agenda would cost our economy dearly by piling on inefficiencies, as it is in Europe now, with no environmental benefit. This is the worlds second-oldest profession, “rent-seeking”, that is trying to gain millions from government favors that they could not earn in the marketplace.
GE has Enrons windmills and some of their pipeline assets, BP has the solar panels. DuPont got out of the nylon business and for reasons peculiar to that decision would have about a half a billion dollars in CO2 equivalence “credits” to sell others who want to keep using energy in the event a Kyoto-style scheme is imposed domestically. Lo and behold, suddenly they strike a “responsible” pose of hand-wringing over Congress failure to impose this albatross around the economys neck. Certain cynical power companies have varying motivations, including a desire to be paid to replace aging coal-fired capacity with new gas plants that they have to build anyway; some nuclear providers want to be paid for not emitting CO2 but only water vapor. And the list goes on.
The Climate Act
The most effective and common-sense plan to cut emissions will be more energy conservation. And all the while, we are now going on an extended period of extreme climate change that needs to be monitored, monitored, and monitored all over the land.
Why aren’t we tracking it? Because it is time that the big energy companies like Wind Energy are running their own programs so there are new opportunities to do so. They are looking at wind, gas, coal in a bid to keep prices down and have been building wind in order to lower their electricity use costs, which will reduce their use of oil. In fact, since 2010, about half of wind demand has been met by renewable energy at the expense of fossil fuel, as well. Wind and nuclear have become a major energy source, as have renewables, natural gas, and photovoltaic. But none of that will offset the price increases on the U.S. energy supply over many and perhaps most decades.
Wind energy, which is an industrial fuel, will continue to be a major source of supply in the United States (and it will soon be a global fuel for American power), to meet today’s demand. That’s because wind demand is higher in the United States compared with Europe. Wind power can reach the peak of power capacity in America by 2020, with an average wind turbine speed. At this time, the average cost for a wind turbine in the United States will exceed $1.85 billion dollars, and the overall total power price in America will only remain $1.5 billion.
The only problem is that there are not as many wind turbines in the entire country as many solar plants, and the price of photovoltaic electricity is not high enough to meet the rising demand. Wind energy is now a major source of natural gas, nuclear (with wind generation), and natural natural gas as well. As recently as last year, the Natural Resources Defense Council reported that “electricity demand continues to grow” with an average yearly increase of 10% between 2009 and 2012. Of the nearly half a trillion dollars installed worldwide, ~150 billion dollars is going to wind energy.
If this goes on, the country could have about a quarter of a trillion dollars in energy in its reach. The whole system would actually be cost competitive with natural gas, wind turbines, and solar energy. This is why this is an important matter, and why people should be very concerned. But right now, most of that energy is going to wind energy and some of its energy is going to solar. Those of us who are considering the renewable energy side (and probably many more of us who are contemplating the nuclear side and those who are contemplating the nuclear option) are already noticing that the big corporations are setting up offshore wind farms just like they do in the U.S.: it is only a matter of time before energy production gets low and electricity prices rise.
The Clean Power Plan
If you
The Climate Act
The most effective and common-sense plan to cut emissions will be more energy conservation. And all the while, we are now going on an extended period of extreme climate change that needs to be monitored, monitored, and monitored all over the land.
Why aren’t we tracking it? Because it is time that the big energy companies like Wind Energy are running their own programs so there are new opportunities to do so. They are looking at wind, gas, coal in a bid to keep prices down and have been building wind in order to lower their electricity use costs, which will reduce their use of oil. In fact, since 2010, about half of wind demand has been met by renewable energy at the expense of fossil fuel, as well. Wind and nuclear have become a major energy source, as have renewables, natural gas, and photovoltaic. But none of that will offset the price increases on the U.S. energy supply over many and perhaps most decades.
Wind energy, which is an industrial fuel, will continue to be a major source of supply in the United States (and it will soon be a global fuel for American power), to meet today’s demand. That’s because wind demand is higher in the United States compared with Europe. Wind power can reach the peak of power capacity in America by 2020, with an average wind turbine speed. At this time, the average cost for a wind turbine in the United States will exceed $1.85 billion dollars, and the overall total power price in America will only remain $1.5 billion.
The only problem is that there are not as many wind turbines in the entire country as many solar plants, and the price of photovoltaic electricity is not high enough to meet the rising demand. Wind energy is now a major source of natural gas, nuclear (with wind generation), and natural natural gas as well. As recently as last year, the Natural Resources Defense Council reported that “electricity demand continues to grow” with an average yearly increase of 10% between 2009 and 2012. Of the nearly half a trillion dollars installed worldwide, ~150 billion dollars is going to wind energy.
If this goes on, the country could have about a quarter of a trillion dollars in energy in its reach. The whole system would actually be cost competitive with natural gas, wind turbines, and solar energy. This is why this is an important matter, and why people should be very concerned. But right now, most of that energy is going to wind energy and some of its energy is going to solar. Those of us who are considering the renewable energy side (and probably many more of us who are contemplating the nuclear side and those who are contemplating the nuclear option) are already noticing that the big corporations are setting up offshore wind farms just like they do in the U.S.: it is only a matter of time before energy production gets low and electricity prices rise.
The Clean Power Plan
If you