I also like to contend that 'cheap' power from coal is cheating
I would even take away the "from coal" words in here; in many ways, we "subsidize" much of our lives by pushing some of the true cost (in terms of things like environmental damage) off the consumer price of the product. Presumably either the world is going to end or someday we're all going to pay through the nose for those in taxes to clean up our messes. But that also highlights why this calculation seems strange to me -- right now, sustainable energy seems to me like mostly an ideological technology that we accept because of our beliefs, and not really like a way to save money upfront,
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Date: 2009-01-30 12:57 pm (UTC)I would even take away the "from coal" words in here; in many ways, we "subsidize" much of our lives by pushing some of the true cost (in terms of things like environmental damage) off the consumer price of the product. Presumably either the world is going to end or someday we're all going to pay through the nose for those in taxes to clean up our messes. But that also highlights why this calculation seems strange to me -- right now, sustainable energy seems to me like mostly an ideological technology that we accept because of our beliefs, and not really like a way to save money upfront,