Stupid Math!
Zackers,
That's some piece of math to start off your distortion. That average American pays some $1250/year for electricity not the average $160/year that they would be willing to pay extra to do things right. Add the 2 together and at today's prices that is well over $30,000 for 23 years. Only a fossil fool would try to argue that today's prices will hold for 23 years with increased demand and diminishing supply. Not even close. Double or Triple that and doing things right and renewable really starts to look like the economic choice.
A friend of mine put solar panels on his house in Milwaukee 3 years ago when it cost twice as much as today to do so. As we speak he is doubling his panels. No fossil fool there.
You whine about renewables being only 3% of our electricity today. In Germany it's over 20% and growing like mad. The greens say that it could be 100% by 2030, the conservatives say it will be 100% by 2050. We dither and distort. The Germans aren't a bunch of hippies and it isn't killing their economy. They're doing better than we are without making the bulk of their folks suffer like we are.
Another friend just flew out of the same German city during the day that he flew out of 3 years ago and was really startled. The city now looks like a Christmas tree with all the solar panels on roofs and unused spaces twinkling in the sun. And they get more of their renewables from wind than solar. Don't BS about it can't be done, because they are doing it and will clean our clocks if we don't respond in kind. Cleanliness is kind of a thing with them. We can't afford to continue to be the dirty hicks down the road.
