Why does alternative energy suck? Or is very expensive? Wind farms kinda suck, geothermal kind of is dangerous to get it up, solar definately sucks, tidal power sucks, hydro electric is decent but the cost to make it and contructing + stopping the flow of a river to make a dam sucks.....

The only alternative is dreams that seem to distant into the future its either that or the best of them all COAL! glorious glorious coal! go nuclear and use oil and COAL the cheap and very efficiant energy producing source! .... Why must we use more expensive/inconvinient sources? AGW if proven wrong will justify the right to use cheaper and efficiant means of producing energy

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1 week ago

random thats a load of crap! your basically saying i should throw more money into a black hole and sit on the edge and wait to see if i need to throw less in to realise what a dick i am throwing my money in there

1 week ago

it%26#039;s cheaper then building entire wind farms

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Whoever told you that coal was cheap? We use it as an altenative heat source and it is not a cheap fuel any more. It%26#039;s right up there with oil and propane. 29% 2 Votes

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• Bestonne has given a very good and mostly accurate summation of real life facts while as usual Adam has stated the articles of faith that support the new left “green” movement of back to the past except for the true believers. For the next 50 years nuclear has to be our major source for electricity in this country until we can get space based solar on line. It really does gripe me that if Jimmy Carter had not been elected president our nation would already be fully energy independent and the supplier of cheap electricity to most if not all nations of the world.
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• Because coal and natural gas and nuclear are the cheapest forms of energy --- only hydro and geothermal are as cheap to produce-------- it%26#039;s that simple..... and we have a 300 year supply of coal and a 1500-2500 year supply of fissionable material IF we reprocess spent fuel.
  
  AND--- the coal and gas reserves are right here in the USA. 0% 0 Votes
• The question is whether it is still cheap if you start assessing the cost of environmental damage into its price. If it%26#039;s still cheap, fine, use it. If not, then alternatives should be considered. 14% 1 Vote
• If wind power was cheap, environmentalists would hate it like they hate hydroelectric systems. If utility companies build wind turbines everywhere then environmentalists would be livid with the noise and bird strikes destroying native habitats. 0% 0 Votes
• well it is expensive since the infrastructure is not there but once its developed cost wise it will become very cheap 0% 0 Votes
• yes it is expensive 0% 0 Votes
• Hmmm... %26quot;suck%26quot;; that%26#039;s a technical or scientific term, right?
  
  You ask %26quot;Why must we use more expensive/inconvinient sources?%26quot;
  The problem is you are only looking at half of the equation. It%26#039;s kind of like asking %26quot;why do I need to work when I can just use my credit card to buy things?%26quot;.
  
  If we look at the entire picture - e.g. financial cost of reacting to climate change or inconvenience of millions dying from hunger - then coal (or oil or nuclear) are not cheaper or more convenient.
  As any business manager or financial expert or even politicians can tell you, present cost is a very unreliable way to measure total cost. You need to include past costs (much higher for %26#039;standard energy%26#039; as we haven%26#039;t invested in %26#039;alternatives%26#039; to the same degree), future costs (cleaning up waste from wind power is very low - well zero - whereas coal is huge) and non-tangible costs (%26quot;wind miners%26quot; don%26#039;t get killed on a regular basis by cave-ins, methane explosions and black-lung disease).
  
  It is precisely this sort of short-sightedness, of having a party and letting the next generations clean up the following morning ( and somehow having our hangovers for us!) that is causing the problem.
  
  I don%26#039;t know why I bother sometimes - I%26#039;m older than you are Michael by quite a bit - it would be easy for me to sit back and enjoy it knowing that you%26#039;re the one who%26#039;s going to pay!
  
  Lucky for you I%26#039;m a nice guy with a conscience...
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• Geothermal actually has a pretty good safety record, it just can%26#039;t be used everywhere (which means it can only play a minor role in our energy supply).