a.ashfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can believe solar panels show a return for the owner - with sufficient > public subsidies. > Yes. Fortunately, the public subsidies for solar panels are far smaller than they are for coal or nuclear power. Imagine if we had to kill 20,000 people a year to make solar panels work! The public would be up in arms. Nuclear power too costs far more than solar when you include the cost of the Fukushima disaster. The thing about the public subsidies for coal is that only poor people living downwind of the coal fired plants pay them. Middle class and wealthy people do not. If we could pipe the smoke into Atlanta, New York or L.A. the coal industry would be permanently shut down in a few months. - Jed
