Of course the 'Conservatives' hate R and D. After all, it created a situation where wind and solar are now cheaper than coal and natural gas. And the internet gave all those funny brown and yellow people full access to the world's knowledge. See what terrible things have been happening with our governments R and D.
Did you really just say wind and solar are cheaper than coal and natural gas? Lol, you are either a bold face liar or very fucking stupid.
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Looks to me like you are the fucking stupid individual.
World’s Cheapest Solar Power Lands In Austin, Texas — Under 4¢/kWh! (Sort Of)
World’s Cheapest Solar Power Lands In Austin, Texas — Under 4¢/kWh! (Sort Of)
July 2nd, 2015 by
Zachary Shahan
Update: I added the Lazard chart on levelized cost of electricity and the update below it in order to provide some context for those who don’t realize that 4¢/kWh (or even 5.71¢/kWh) is lower than the lowest LCOE for all other sources of electricity other than wind power.
Texans likes to be #1. Well, a lot of people like to be #1, but Texans are particularly known for this. For the time being, the Lone Star State can now lay claim to being #1 again with the cheapest solar power on the planet.
Not long ago,
Dubai grabbed the title with a bid for a large solar project coming in under 6¢/kWh. As that article explains, that 5.98¢/kWh bid (now actually
down to 5.84¢/kWh) shattered the previous record for the world’s cheapest solar power (or
the world’s lowest solar power bid, since there is a slight difference). That article also noted that the second-lowest bid would have taken the record if the lowest hadn’t existed, showing that it wasn’t just a crazy anomaly from one developer. The Dubai solar bids were very exciting, and the talk of the industry for months, but records don’t last very long in the world of solar these days.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/b...-win-on-price-vs-conventional-fuels.html?_r=0
“Wind was on sale — it was a Blue Light Special,” said Jay Godfrey, managing director of renewable energy for the company. He noted that Oklahoma, unlike many states, did not require utilities to buy power from renewable sources.
“We were doing it because it made sense for our ratepayers,” he said.
According to a study by the investment banking firm Lazard, the cost of utility-scale
solar energy is as low as 5.6 cents a kilowatt-hour, and wind is as low as 1.4 cents. In comparison, natural gas comes at 6.1 cents a kilowatt-hour on the low end and coal at 6.6 cents. Without subsidies, the firm’s analysis shows, solar costs about 7.2 cents a kilowatt-hour at the low end, with wind at 3.7 cents.
When you accuse someone else of being fucking stupid, maybe you better check and make sure you have the facts. Or is your purpose simply to spread lies? 
