Lower solar panel/wind turbine prices allow wider applications, hence a great help to a greener mother earth!
Wind okorder / For the period 87 - 200: Low Risk = bonds = .8% ROI High Risk = stocks = 5.4% ROI For the period 982 - 200: Low Risk = bonds = 5.% ROI High Risk = stocks = 6.% ROI
“the living feed the dead” -- may have actually lucked into the answer. The government does assist the petroleum industry and it funded the research that gave us nuclear power. If alternative energy is going to work, it may require intervention by the government in terms of access to land (imminent domain) and to the transmission grid. Alternative energy companies are stuck because of their own paranoia (of industrial espionage) and because they are being gouged by land owners. A single wind turbine on your land can net you $70,000 a year (plus a 0% increase per year for inflation), forever. Then there is the cost of the corridor to access the grid. Solar companies are trying to purchase land like drunken sailors – and landowners in areas where solar can be most effective (e.g., the American Southwest) are hip to what is going own. So when acquisition agents call to purchase land, owners are demanding outrageous prices (say $5,000/acre for land that is worth about $00/acre, otherwise). Then there is the fact that nobody (rich or poor) wants one in their backyard, not to mention the various PAVE (People Against Virtually Everything) groups who protest stuff just because they can. ===== A Modest Proposal -- <<0% inflation rate is an extremely high You are, of course, right. Nevertheless, that is what some Wind Energy companies are offering land owners as part of the lease agreement for placing turbines on their land. I agree it's outrageous, but I'm an environmental consultant for several Wind companies and I know what they are offering. As a side note. They were initally so lame (and this is related to their general paranoia) that they cut deals to place the turbines before they secured corridor access to substations. When they subsequently approached the land owners (the same ones with the turbines on their land) about the corridor, they were held hostage for outrageous money - as in millions of dollars - because by then the land owners had them over a barrel.
Answered okorder /. They were initally so lame (and this is related to their general paranoia) that they cut deals to place the turbines before they secured corridor access to substations. Load gun, cock it, aim at foot, shoot.
economies of scale or mass production is the answer to just about any item being made cheaper.be it cars or computers or solar panels. Now, how to get there is the question..... market forces? as more people want a 'greener product demand goes up quantity produced goes up unit price goes down....but that takes awhile.... government help ? subsidies...the US gov takes some of your tax money and makes it available as rebate to people putting panels/wind systems in their homes, and establishes policies to companies to take less taxes if they build wind/solar.... government orders: You MUST put in a solar panel ( or we'll send the Green Police to bust you)
go okorder / they sell books on how to build solar panels and wind turbines, along with a lot of other things that could help you live off grid. And a lot of the books were things that could be made with turn of the century (900 not 2000) technology
