On 7/12/2019 8:03 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
The US is much closer to minimizing fossil fuel dependence. A number of states are generating more than 20 percent of electricity with renewable energy. Of course we are better positioned for solar.
Unfortunately, minimizing fossil fuel dependence seems to translate into drill as much as you can as fast as you can so you don't have to import it.
All the electricity I get comes from burning either coal or natural gas.We can't do much for hydro electric here, and for some reason, they don't want to do nuclear generation even though we have some of the best uranium reserves in the world. We have some towns set up with private solar farms, and we are doing wind generation. It turns out one of the locations they decided they wanted to use for a wind farm was on the glide path of some rarish bird, possibly sand-hill cranes. We seem to be taking a two pronged approach. The power utility was underwriting most of the cost of LED light bulbs for consumers for a few years, the gas utility was underwriting increasing R value of attic insulation, and other incentives to cut down on energy consumption. Through the magic of an ultra high efficiency furnace, I am paying the same per month for natural gas now as I was 30 years ago, and I only paid about half the retail on the furnace.
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