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Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016
Lucas123 writes: The cost of rooftop solar-powered electricity will be on par with prices of coal-powered energy and other conventional sources in all 50 U.S. states in just two years, a leap from today where PV energy has price parity in only 10 states, according to Deutsche Bank's leading solar industry analyst. The sharp decline in solar energy costs is the result of increased economies of scale leading to cheaper photovoltaic panels, new leasing models and declining installation costs, Deutsche Bank's Vishal Shah stated in a recent report. The cost of solar-generated electricity in the top 10 states for capacity ranges from 11-15 cents per kilowatt hour (c/kWh), compared to the retail electricity price of 11-37 c/kWh. Amit Ronen, a former Congressional staffer behind legislation that created an investment tax credit for solar installations, said one of the only impediments to decreasing solar electricity prices are fees proposed by utilities on customers who install solar and take advantage of net metering, or the ability to sell excess power back to utilities.
Everybody knows wind turbines are eye sores.
They obscure all the lovely smoke stacks.
It's absolutely true. Most people don't know this, but a herd of elephants produce a constant low frequency.
At first it was theorized that the low frequency sounds were communication to keep the group connected even over long distances, but it is now accepted by leading researchers that the low frequency hum is actually a defense mechanism by the elephants to cause cancer in predators, or in some cases a particular asshole elephant in the herd that gets on their nerves.
We may think that we discovered that low frequencies of sound cause cancer by studying people that obviously hate windmills, but nature actually invented it first!
Isn't nature amazing?
Don't know about cancer, but some of those frequencies can give you a good case of the runs. Happened to me once at a Joe Walsh concert...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”